Uselessness Quotes
Uselessness Quote of the day
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.
It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.
A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.
Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.
Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.
Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.
If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.
It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.
Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.
People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wandering.