Uselessness Quotes

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

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 Harris

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana