Quotes About Insignificance

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence.

The universe was infinite, and there were most likely an infinite number of universes. To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

I'm more inclined to believe in God because of our insignificance next to nature, rather than because we're so special.

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

We don't matter. There's the good news.

As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own insignificance no longer terrifies me as it once did, but comforts me, makes me feel a part, however tiny, of the whole complete and perfect universe. . . and when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the the sandy soil, dried instantly by the constant prairie wind . . .

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her

His body was now more or less irrelevant. Arash studied him. "I heard you're

Bean looked up into the sky. What if someone was watching her through a giant magnifying glass and thinking the same thing she was? What if she was as small as an ant compared to that someone? And what if that someone was an ant compared to the next world after that? Wow. Bean waved at the sky. Hi out there, she thought.

If you think something small can't make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.

A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs in the paper, the paper gets thrown away, and it's all over.

May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

Men and objects share a common abstract destiny: to be of equally insignificant value in the algebra of life's mystery.