Quotes About Unimportance

Looking into Napoleon's eyes Prince Andrei thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

In the grand scheme of a trillion planets in the universe we're just not that damn important anyway. And humans are rotten to the core.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.

And why did I actually give a single hummingbird's fart what it meant?

Her name is unimportant and her face a visual sin.

It doesn't matter

But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

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

Compared to general opinion, personal opinion is simply unnecessary.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...