Quotes on Useless Things

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.