Your Words Are Useless Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

James Patterson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#9. 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

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

Anonymous

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Lili St. Crow