Quotes About Unimportance

That was the worst of it. The sky didn't care. The Earth went on turning through an endlessness of dark and silence, and what happened in the thin scum seething over its crust didn't matter.

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

Lo dicen como si no fuera ese el destino de casi todos nosotros, como si eso no fuera lo que le espera a todo el mundo desde su nacimiento, pasar por la tierra sin que su presencia la altere lo más mínimo, como si todos fuéramos sólo adornos, figurantes de un drama o figuras de fondo inmóviles hasta la eternidad en una pintura, masa indistinguible y prescindible y superflua, conmutables e invisibles todos, todos nadie.

you are unimportant to the important!

If that's the word you like, then why not use it. First or last, there's no difference.

Who cares?" Sunnie

Viskas b?t? nesvarbu, jei tik prieš mus nusidriekt? begalyb?.

None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.

He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

I did not feel that I mattered.

Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but as a sort of comfort. I know it has been a comfort to me sometimes. Just remember that most people don't give a damn. When you remember it, you won't feel the necessity of taking the Apleys so seriously.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

I am a nobody. ... Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether.

Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered

I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.

But my one-day absence was probably not having an effect on anybody. Not one human being had noticed that I was gone, likely. I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.