Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about uselessness, or about what is of no use to bring benefits to something or someone, thus becoming a substantially ineffective action in making any improvement possible.
Quotes about uselessness
- In this imperfect life we also need a certain amount of useless things. If all the useless things disappear, it would also be the end of our imperfect existence. (Haruki Murakami)
- Many people do substantially useless jobs. When he retires, he discovers this truth. (Brendan Francis Behan)
- A missed life is a regret; a useless life is a remorse. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)
- You get tired of pity, when pity is useless. (Albert Camus)
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are also the most useless ones: peacocks and lilies, for example. (John Ruskin)
- When the remedies are no longer needed, if you can discern the worst, the afflictions that hope held in suspense also end. Crying over a past evil is no help but to bring new afflictions. (William Shakespeare)
- The more understandable the universe, the more useless it appears. (Steven Weinberg)
- We can forgive a man for doing something useful as long as you don't admire it. The only excuse for doing a useless thing is to admire it intensely. All art is completely useless. (Oscar Wilde)
- Nothing is more useful than those studies that have no use. (Ovid)
- There is nothing as useless and as inefficient as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. (Peter Ferdinand Drucker)
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- Outside of the sun, kisses and wild scents, everything seems futile to us. (Albert Camus)
- Imagination is not fertile except when it is useless. (Vladimir Nobokov)
- There is nothing as useless and as inefficient as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)
- Writing incapable of stimulating activity is useless. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
- All art is completely useless. (Oscar Wilde)
Aphorisms on worthlessness
- Nothing can be useless to a poet. (Samuel Johnson)
- The biggest misfortune that can happen to you is that you are of no use to anyone, and that your life is useless. (Raoul Follereau)
- Telling lies is a flaw, and lies are always useless because, sooner or later, you know the truth and you only earn the shame of having told them. (Jules Renard)
- Just because something doesn't do what you expect, doesn't mean it's useless. (Thomas A. Edison)
- In nature there is nothing useless; not even the uselessness itself. (Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
- Man is a useless passion. (Jean Paul Sartre)
- When things have happened, it is useless to repent. (Aesop)
- In nature there is nothing useless; not even the uselessness itself. (Michel de Montaigne)
- All professionals are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things that are unnecessary. (Goethe)
- Who can, with the rarest talents and the most excellent merit, not be convinced of their uselessness, aware as it is of leaving, dying, a world that is not affected by its loss, and in which there are many people to replace it? (Jean de La Bruyère)
- If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless way, you have learned how to live. (Yutang Lin)
- Men, not enough for them what is necessary, are anxious for what is useless. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
- The art of the police is to see only what is useless to see. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- Everything that is useless is always respectable, for example religion, fashionable clothes, knowledge of Latin grammar. (Henry Louis Mencken)
- In this imperfect life we also need a certain amount of useless things. If all the useless things disappear, it would also be the end of our imperfect existence. (Haruki Murakami)
Phrases about uselessness
- A useless life is an anticipated death. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
- Where hands are needed, words are perfectly useless. (Aesop)
- No man is useless if he relieves someone else's weight. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Three things keep the soul quiet and peaceful: leaving behind what does not belong to us; do not delve into unnecessary things; and do not take the trouble beforehand of things to come, nor after the past. (Aristippus)
- Never say that dreams are useless because the life of someone who cannot dream is useless. (Jim Morrison)
- It is necessary to eliminate not only actions but also unnecessary thoughts, because in this way they will not keep unnecessary actions as an inevitable consequence. (Marco Aurelio)
- I've been described as a beacon in the middle of a puddle: bright but useless. (Connor Cruise O'Brien)
- If you want to turn a man into a nullity, all you have to do is consider his job useless. (Fëdor Dostoevskij)
- Why is art beautiful? Because it is useless. Why is life bad? Because it is all ends and purposes and intentions. (Fernando Pessoa)
- They also had a mayor there, among other useless characters. (Mark Twain)
- In this imperfect life we also need a certain amount of useless things. If all the useless things disappear, it would also be the end of our imperfect existence. (Haruki Murakami)
- Duty of everything is to be happiness, if they are not such things are useless or harmful. (Jorge Luis Borges)
- No man is useless if he relieves someone else's weight. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Nature does nothing useless. (Aristotle)
- The biggest misfortune that can happen to you is that you are of no use to anyone, and that your life is useless. (Raul Follereau)
