Quotes About Superfluous

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

I am my family's appendix, its unnecessary appendage.

Joseph Roth ends Flight Without End with the sentence: "No one in the whole world was as superfluous as he." I beg to differ. No one in the whole world is as superfluous as I. Not Franz Tunda, Roth's protagonist, no. I am the one who has no occupation, no desire, no hope, no ambition, not even any self-love.

Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

L'intervention des deux hommes avait peut-être été superflue, mais tout le monde savait que les dieux aidaient ceux qui se prenaient en main. Il

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

A magician wandered along the beach, but no one needed him.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Ferguson was difficult. He sprawled insolently in a chair. "Grand to-do about this business!" he sneered. "What's it really matter? Lots of superfluous women in the world!

Il poeta trasmette: il comprendere è superfluo.

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

Provisional Definition 2: a bullshit job is a form of employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.