Top 35 Inessential Things Quotes
#1. It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Victor Hugo
#3. Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
Helmut Jahn
#4. To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
John Drinkwater
#7. [Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies - with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.
Seneca.
#8. Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
Walter Benjamin
#9. And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Pope John Paul II
#10. Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.
J.K. Rowling
#11. Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#12. These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up ... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon
#13. I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
Oliver Sacks
#14. His hand dove beneath my seat and surfaced with the sawed-off vintage Lupara.
"I distinctly remember telling you not to bring that thing," I complained.
"Felt like you were daring me.
Jenn Bennett
#15. In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
Peter Zumthor
#16. You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.
Eric Cantona
#17. Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.
Keith Richards
#18. She knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding the inessential and the essential alike, making use of the stolen pieces and memories, retreating to the lost moments of other people's lives.
Yiyun Li
#19. It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.
Anne Bronte
#20. Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
J.K. Rowling
#21. There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
Tom Robbins
#22. There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
Baltasar Gracian
#23. My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.
Tom Peters
#24. Sometimes, the inessential is essential.
T.L. Rese
#25. Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
Gautama Buddha
#26. Saint Thomas declared that woman was an "inessential" being, which, from a masculine point of view, is a way of positing the accidental character of sexuality.
Simone De Beauvoir
#28. We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.
Melina Marchetta
#29. I don't have many rules to live by," he'd said. "But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles
drug or tattoo
and ... no inessential penises either.
Laini Taylor
#31. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.
Tom Robbins
#32. [T]he vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests " ... since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#33. The name one gives is inessential.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.
Walpola Rahula
#34. The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.
Konrad Lorenz
#35. The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
Sharon Salzberg
