Quotes About Uselessness

The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.

he didn't understand, but as the clock hand labored from one minute to the next, he wished that he were gone too. Off the basketball court, he had no usefulness. No

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.

The weariness caused by all illusions and all that they entail – our losing them, the uselessness of our having them, the pre-weariness of having to have them in order to lose them, the regret of having had them, the intellectual chagrin of having had them while knowing full well they would end.

And I who am saying all this – why am I writing this book? Because I realize it's imperfect. Dreamed, it would be perfection; written, it becomes imperfect; that's why I'm writing it. And above all else, because I advocate uselessness, absurdity, – I write this book to lie to myself, to be unfaithful to my own theory.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Thus was born an ideology: the belief in the inherent value of gold despite its relative uselessness in reality.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Não lia jornais. Achava que um jornal era a coisa mais inútil do mundo, depois da Câmara dos Deputados, das obras dos poetas e das missas. Não quer isto dizer que Soares fosse ateu em religião, política e poesia. Não. Soares era apenas indiferente. Olhava para todas as grandes coisas com a mesma cara com que via uma mulher feia. Podia vir a ser um grande perverso; até então era apenas uma grande inutilidade. (Luís Soares)

It was clear that the man was no fool. But what was the use of not being a fool if you acted like this?

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

La humanidad posee cuatro cosas que no son útiles en el mar: Timones, anclas, remos y el temor de hundirse.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Modern pessimism is an expression of the uselessness of the modern world — not of the world and of existence.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Jeremy is as much use in that cockpit as a blow-up doll. Actually, that's not fair since the blow-up doll could be used as an air bag. (Carlos)

Third, Yahweh also speaks of exposing the powerlessness of the nations' so-called gods and the uselessness of their so-called insight and capacity to decide what will happen in the world (e.g., Is 19:1-17).

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things;   Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion;   But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from   another   Layeth it to heart;—he is a useless man.

He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart;--he is a useless man.

She was used to gracious leisure, attractive uselessness, nut-center chocolates, and a certain wonder as to why she was alive.