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Some things are so useless one can't live without them. — Marty Rubin

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless! — Zhuangzi

For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness. — Kaoru Kurimoto

We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it. — John Stuart Mill

They were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice. — Samuel R. Delany

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco

How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204 — Chetan Bhagat

Useless"-what they call you when you won't let yourself be used. — Marty Rubin

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan

Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness! — Akuku Mach Pep

Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you. — Idries Shah

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world. — Ruby Wax

Give love in doses and hope for uselessness. — Michael Strong

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. — George Bernard Shaw

One. My tongue was at a new level of uselessness. Two. Oh my God, I'm really doing this. Three. OK, fuck it, let's dance. — Drew Barrymore

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. — Idries Shah

Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu) — Sung Yee Poon

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't. — Criss Jami

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress! — Ernest Renan

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. — Bernard Malamud

As a woman still,
without the right kind of mouth,
my tongue's of no use. — Kristen Henderson

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing

Is there anything in the world more useless than an afterthought? — Marty Rubin

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious. — Maurice Blanchot

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood. — Lisa Unger

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself — Michel De Montaigne

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person. — Simone De Beauvoir

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. — Samuel Richardson

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness — Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. — Douglas Adams

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes. — Diana Gabaldon

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness. — James C. Malin

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. — Tom Robbins