Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts.
Tobias WolffTags: meaning irrelevant uselessness
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
Tom StoppardTags: knowledge illumination uselessness
Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928)
Clare Winger HarrisTags: life materialism possessions wasted-time uselessness material-possessions
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Tags: art admiration utility uselessness
The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.
Bret Easton EllisTags: mind failure defense uselessness restructure
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes racing detection destruction facts brains machines analysis uselessness engines
Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.
Tags: knowledge belief usefulness uselessness asleep
Huh.”
“Huh what?”
“Would you look at this?” he asked, examining a small box. “It says it glows in the dark.”
“So?”
“So, what use is that to anybody? I mean, what am I supposed to do? Write her name in
the air with it?
Tags: humour uselessness
they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: uselessness niceness
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: despair weakness helplessness powerlessness hopelessness richelle incapable uselessness richelle-goodrich
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