#useless

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#flux #life #meditation #nihilism #philosophy

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?' ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#appearance #camera #carry #desperately #ear

Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who

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

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #just #just because #mean #planned

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

Trivia monologue. You are so the man for me. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #trivia #useless-information #vampire-romance #librarians

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#grumble #useless #change

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find