Quotes About Uselessness

I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.

La strategia è la via del paradosso. Così, chi è abile, si mostri maldestro; chi è utile, si mostri inutile. Chi è affabile, si mostri scostante; chi è scostante, si mostri affabile.

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

En percevant l'usage subtil de l'inutile, il est entré dans le royaume de l'art.

It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.

To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself to an iron discipline, without end and without profit; to write, in the profound conviction that one's work has no importance; to know, to understand, and to tolerate, while constantly bearing in mind the painful uselessness of being right...

Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam

cuando gana en una tómbola una bicicleta. Como si los dos supiéramos que nos habían regalado una casualidad enormemente valiosa que, sin embargo, no nos iba a servir para nada.

When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable.

Confucious and the Madman (excerpt) The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down! The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it. Every man knows how useful it is to be useful. No one seems to know How useful it is to be useless.

At no point in this did Frank think he was dreaming, probably because he seldom remembered dreams, or paid attention to them even if he did. And though this all had the alert immediacy of daytime Mexico in its ongoing dispute with its history, it would someday be relegated as well to the register of experiences he had been unable to find any use for.

El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

A mi me hace avanzar el odio. Cuando la energía del odio desaparezca no serviré para nada.

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.

The growth of civilization was complete. Everyone knew it. When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

This morning I was so rash as to read some of the public newspapers; suddenly an indolence of the weight of twenty atmospheres fell upon me, and I was stopped, faced by the appalling uselessness of explaining anything whatever to anyone whatever. Those who know can divine me, and for those who can not or will not understand, it would be fruitless to pile up explanations.

What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It was the "leisure-class" world, and the people in it were proud of the fact that they had never done and didn't know how to do anything useful. The farther back they could trace an ancestry which had never done it, the more distinguished they were.

Two old women. They complain, never satisfied. We talk of no food, and of how good it was in our days when it really was no better. We think that we are so old. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.