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Uselessness Quotes (page 4)

Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to..."
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. Ursula K. Le Guin
Frank Herbert quote: "People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless."
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. Frank Herbert
Serenity. Now you could wish for that, naming no conditions: a permanent inner vacation, escape made good. To somehow have this motionlessness that he drew in with the sweet air he inhaled for his inward weather always. But there were problems too with wishing for moral qualities, serenity, large-mindedness. The interdiction (which Pierce thought obvious) against wishing for such things as artistic abilities -- sit down at the piano, the Appassionata flows suddenly from your fingertips --... John Crowley
In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument. Roland Barthes
J. K. Rowling quote: "Get up, you useless lump, get up!"
Get up, you useless lump, get up! J. K. Rowling
George R. R. Martin quote: "As useless as nipples on a brestplate."
As useless as nipples on a brestplate. George R. R. Martin
The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more particular service, Friends; and as all other nations are perpetually either making leagues or breaking them, they never enter into an alliance with any state. They think leagues are useless things, and believe that if the common ties of humanity do not knit men together, the faith of promises will have no great effect; and they are the more confirmed in this by what... Thomas More
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and distrust of God's providence. Hugh Blair
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice. Cornelia Funke
Joss Whedon quote: "I cannot abide useless people."
I cannot abide useless people. Joss Whedon
Edward Gibbon quote: "Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless."
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. Edward Gibbon
...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything. Charles R. Swindoll
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Edward Abbey
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming. Cheryl Strayed

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