Quotes About Useless Words

#1. I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.

Beatrice Sparks

#2. The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.

Mary Higgins Clark

#3. Yeah. Calm down. Two of the most useless words in the English language.

Lili St. Crow

#4. He knew how useless words could be. How even when you wanted more than anything just to hear someone say they understood, it didn't make you feel better. Not really.

Brenna Yovanoff

#5. If' and 'only' are the two most useless words in the human vocabulary,

Harper Bliss

#6. Better than a thousand sayings
Made up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it.

Anonymous

#7. Probably, all these words would tumble out, these stupid, useless words I've been carrying everywhere like a bouquet of delicate, beautiful, stupid, useless flowers.

Daniel Jose Older

#8. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions - beautiful writing rarely is.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Thomas Merton

#11. 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

#12. But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

Jodi Picoult

#13. We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe

Kelley Armstrong

#14. Words are pretty, useless things - butterflies behind glass. You may feel warm and bright as you stare at their beauty but you'll walk away empty and cold, clutching nothing but the painful realization that you never really had anything at all.

Julie Johnson

#15. Now that I have written many words,
and let out so many loves, for so many,
and been altogether what I always was
a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
I find the effort useless.

Anne Sexton

#16. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

#17. If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

Charles II Of England

#18. Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless.

David Mitchell

#19. Crash smiled slowly. He didn't waste words while fighting. It was useless to taunt the dead.

T.L. Shreffler

#20. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Hesiod

#21. All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.

Mo Willems

#22. The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

Robert Bresson

#23. The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do good. In other words, you become neutral like neutron and become useless for the self and the society.

Awdhesh Singh

#24. Sometimes a situation grows so tangled that words are useless.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.

Kristin Hannah

#26. It is useless to offer words of hope when you have none yourself.

Julie Kagawa

#27. Sometimes words were useless. It was the deed that would be remembered, anyway, long after the words had faded into the wind.

L. Joseph Shosty

#28. You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

Cesare Pavese

#29. Words are useless, especially sentences.

Madonna Ciccone

#30. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#31. Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Samuel Butler

#32. Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

Jennifer Donnelly

#33. All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#35. There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.

James Patterson

#36. Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.

Lange Weile

#37. The whys and wherefores didn't need to be said. If you are reading this have ever loved someone, you will understand. Putting it into words is useless. The uninitiated cannot understand the mysterious.

Jose Rizal

#38. Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.

Renee Ahdieh

#39. Status is hollow without money, words are useless without actions, beauty is ephemeral without heart, and men are incomplete without women. Nowadays, why are men marrying men then?'

My no.7th book is coming soon....!

Tim I. Gurung

#40. AIMS without MEANS are USELESS.

Shaikh Mustafa

#41. It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

Noel Gallagher

#42. Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.

Markus Zusak

#43. I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Charles Bukowski