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Quotes About Useless

Now you see why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.
~ Amy Tan
È utile (e inutile allo stesso tempo) ripetere che luoghi e nomi sono inventati di ràdica. A chi potrebbe lamentare qualche coincidenza, ricordo che la vita stessa (assai superiore, in fatto d'invenzioni, alla fantasia) non è che una pura coincidenza.
~ Andrea Camilleri
How awful for the string of inequities to be brought out in his mind, that useless rosary, so he can finger again those memories:
~ Andrew Sean Greer
He can see the expression on his face, and what is one to do with pity? Is it all just useless Confederate money?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
~ Samuel Johnson
Do you ever feel helpless? Helpless, useless, clueless. And old. Don't forget old.
~ Sara Zarr
There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.
~ Sarah Dessen
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.
~ John Barnes
The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.
~ John Cage
Regret, he now knew, was a useless emotion, the poor cousin of guilt.
~ John Connolly
Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.
~ Joan D. Chittister
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
~ Annie Dillard
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
~ Edward Gibbon
Veritably, what establishes and defines, the hundreds of thousands of useless numbers on social media, when a few ones of that stay active? - Indeed, garbage cannot beautify and impregnate with fragrance the streets.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Oh, but you're wrong! It's my duty as a priest to pry into people's lives. I agree it's a meddlesome trade, but it's no more useless than the business of a merchant, clothier, carpenter or samurai. It exists because it is needed.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
~ Anton Chekhov
A person who has got the wealth more than own worth in life spends every extra money on bogus or useless things and hangs out with all worthless or unscrupulous people.
~ Anuj Somany
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
~ Archilochus
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
~ Abu Bakr
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
~ Richard Dawkins
He was recovering his style, or whatever it was that kept him upright and made him interesting to women. On the shooting level he was a bum, as useless as a cat in a dogfight. But he had his own feline dignity, even with his hands up.
~ Ross MacDonald