Uselessly Quotes

#1. The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;

Julian Barnes

#2. Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,' remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others.

Alain De Botton

#3. I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart ... I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly.

Sylvia Plath

#4. She had loved him, uselessly.

Margaret Atwood

#5. There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#6. I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."
Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.
"These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. Where is my oasis? Too far from
here for me to crawl with these
dead legs, refusing to co-operate
Hands and fingers clawing uselessly
through the grains of sand ...

Kiera Woodhull

#11. Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.

Guru Nanak

#12. The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Albert Camus

#13. Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.

John Williams

#14. He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind's eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect

Yaa Gyasi

#16. She says, trying uselessly to console me: 'What are you so long for in your face? Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!'
But if small things go, will large things be close behind?

Salman Rushdie

#17. Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?

Kerry Greenwood

#18. Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#19. Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#20. We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle.

#22. She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#23. Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.

Murasaki Shikibu

#24. In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#26. Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

David Toop

#27. I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.

Fernando Pessoa

#28. Will still support my weight, but it drags beneath me uselessly; and when I prick it with my stylus, there is the merest ghost of a pain. I still have not informed

John Edward Williams

#29. Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.

Jonathan Lethem

#30. Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that to Us you would not be returned?" Quran AL-MU'MINUN (THE BELIEVERS) 23 : 115.

Qur'an

#32. It was easy to understand why Sala didn't mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al's, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn't stand the idea of going back to the apartment.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly

Aristotle.

#34. I beat at him uselessly with my fists. I scream. My mind races. I'll pee on him. Puke, bite, scratch. Sure, I'll lose, but if he's going to mark me I am going to mark him, too, if such a thing is possible.

Cynthia Hand