Worthless Quotes - Page 6

• It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Literature, World

  Stephen Crane, Joseph Katz (1970). “Stephen Crane in the West and Mexico”

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• On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Essence, Culture

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• - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

  Ken Kesey

  Hands, Numbers, Alarms

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

  Ian Mcewan

  Ideas, People, Design

  "Black Dogs". Book by Ian McEwan, December 29, 1998.

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• There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

  Tao Lin

  Mistake, Loneliness, Long

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• Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Mathematical, Please

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• Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

  Ted Dekker

  Growing Up, Father, Mind

  Ted Dekker, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Evil, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Conclusion

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Doors

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• As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

  Ian Mortimer

  Sports, Football, Loss

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• But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Giving, Trying

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• But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

  David James Duncan

  World, May, Lovers

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.516, Dial Press

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• What's wrong, little sis? You look upset." She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked...my...nail polish slapping your... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them. "Cute" He snorted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Upset, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Giving, Body, Mines

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• And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's dog. because, although he may be only a worthless, simpleminded, libertine artist, Lucien is my favorite, and I will not have him hurt. Do you understand?

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Hurt, Children

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Shoes, People

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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• Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

  Gerald Morris

  Given, Values

  Gerald Morris (2008). “Parsifal's Page”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Punishment, Gone, Fixing

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

  Bryan Davis

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

  Alexandra Bracken

  Girl, Boys, Cry

  "The Darkest Minds". Book by Alexandra Bracken, December 18, 2012.

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• Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.

  Lauren Oliver

  Years, Lost, Meaningless

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• Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Littles, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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