Quotes about Feeling Unworthy

Worth less, men considered themselves worthless.

Ability without honor is useless.

It reduces all the revolutions, the struggles, the pain, the great dreams—everything—to nonsense! It means that life is pointless!"
"Not pointless," Brazil put in suddenly. "It just means that the grand schemes are pointless. It means that you don't make your own life pointless or useless—most people do, you know. It wouldn't make any difference if ninety-nine percent of the people of the human race—or any other—lived or not. Except in sheer numbers their lives are dull, vegetative, and non-productive.

Worthlessness is the default condition.

Thus to say that God is ineffable is to say that no concepts apply to Him, and that He is without qualities.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist... Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference. A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

That feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but corrodes people’s souls, repeating over and over: ‘No one is interested in you, you’re nothing, the world doesn’t need your presence.’

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.