Quotes About Insignificance

Little Jem had said Wow-ga that morning. What were principalities and powers, the rise and fall of dynasties, the overthrow of Grit or Tory, compared with that miraculous occurrence?

Belki de o kadar kötü bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Bence hayattaki küçük ÅŸeyler, büyük ÅŸeylerden daha çok sorun ç?kar?yor.

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

soy un mortal de tan poca consecuencia para el mundo que lo que yo haga no tiene mucha importancia;

I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.

See how small your are next to the mountains. Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.

Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.

Our lives are not the measure of all things: consider sublime places for a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still

Studying the stars makes you come to grips with your insignificance pretty quickly.

What may appear weak and insignificant to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

I can only tell you how I felt. Ugly. Disgusting. Stupid. Small. Worthless. Forgotten. It just feels like there's no choice. Like it's the most logical thing to do because what else is there? You think, 'No one will even miss me. They won't know I'm gone. The world will go on, and it won't matter that I'm not here. Maybe it's better if I was never here.