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Quotes About Worthless

Desire, desire! I have too dearly bought, With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware.
~ Philip Sidney
How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?
~ Jonathan Lethem
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
~ Piers Anthony
Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).
~ Randy Alcorn
Abandoned workings had for him strong fascination. Their desolation appealed to him like the sight of human misery, whose causes are varied and profound. They might have been worthless, but also they night have been misunderstood
~ Joseph Conrad
But our God is an expert at removing worthless things out of us while retaining the valuable.
~ Joyce Meyer
I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Where is your focus today? The beautiful or the ugly? Things to praise or things that are to be cursed? Things of eternal value or things that are worthless? Turn from the worthless and ponder the true, the noble, the authentic, the reputable, and the gracious. It took David deep into the heart of God and will do so for us!
~ Darlene Zschech
While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings.
~ Dave Barry
that spiritual goods are given to the just as the better [reward], while temporal goods may go to the unjust, but these are of course quite worthless
~ David B. Burrell
Dear FB Friends, Fuck Facebook!!!!! — It has proven to be worthless as a book-selling device, and is nothing but a repository for perverts, reparation-seekers, old buddies looking for handouts, syphillitic ex-girlfriends looking for extra-curricular schlong and hack writers begging for blurbs.
~ James Ellroy
How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.
~ James MacDonald
that woman Forbes was no more use than a headache—
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.
~ Douglas Coupland
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
What is man? After posing the last of these questions, the eminent zoologist G. G. Simpson put it thus: 'The point I want to make now is that all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and that we will be better off if we ignore them completely.
~ Richard Dawkins
Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous a a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. Although he may tell others of his hopes, he doesn't dream of them himself. He thinks of himself as worthless and either falls into masochistic loneliness, or, failing that, ultimately becomes suspicious and pious, forever denouncing the eccentricities of others.
~ K?b? Abe
You were wrong," she told Paul, because he had been a pedantic asshole who thought he was right about everything. "You said I would be dead in a gutter by now. You said I was worthless. You said that no one would believe me because I didn't matter.
~ Karin Slaughter
It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
~ Neil Abercrombie
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
~ Karl Marx
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
~ Neil Abercrombie