Quotes About Ineffectual

This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

even killed a man, though it had been more by accident than skill. But he was an ineffectual warrior. In battle the valves of his heart were turned full open, and his strength poured out.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

The frustration is in how pointless the effort was

I think justice is blind so that she needn't see how massively ineffectual she is.

Well, this day was a total waste of make-up.

His own sterility was apparent to him and would soon, he felt sure, be visible to others. Curiously, he didn't feel depressed at the prospect. He was almost intrigued by the idea of giving in to his oddness, turning into one of those remote, ineffectual creatures, so warped by their solitude that they became distasteful to normal people.

An arrow shot into the sea, it can hurt no one.

As much use as tits on a fish.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

[A] beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

for the weak and the ineffectual, who cannot rise to the dignity and nobility of tragedy, or the luxury of irony, for whom even ordinary acts of will are impossible, melodrama is a substitute. People deprived of the capacity to change their fate can only repetitively lament this fact, and since they belong to the vast majority of the world's population, melodrama should be taken seriously for its world-historical impact.

Ik hoorde hoe flauw ik klonk. Als iemand die wel praat maar niets zegt.