Quotes About Insignificance

Everything seems doomed in advance to insignificance.

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.

Todo tan superfluo! Nosotros y el mundo y el misterio de ambos.

And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we were nobody. We were nothing at all… We had no life for Death to have to kill. We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm.

I've done nothing nor will I ever do anything useful to justify my existence.

Considerar nuestra angustia más profunda como un incidente sin importancia, no sólo en la vida del universo, sino en la de nuestra propia alma, es el principio de la sabiduría.

Other people are no more for us than scenery, generally the invisible scenery of a street we know by heart.

I feel more kinship and intimacy with certain characters described in books and certain images I've seen in prints than I feel with many so-called real people, who are of that metaphysical insignificance known as flesh and blood. And 'flesh and blood' in fact describes them rather well: they're like chunks of meat displayed in the window of a butcher's, dead things bleeding as if they were alive, shanks and cutlets of Destiny.

To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Whenever I am tempted to get stressed out about the spotlight, I remind myself that one day I will be long forgotten, and that I will miss it.

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.

Alas! there comes the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man…. Lo! I show you the last man. The earth has become small and on it hops the last man who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable like the ground flea; the last man lives longest.

23 de diciembre Hoy no pasó nada. Y si pasó es mejor callarlo, pues no lo entendí.

He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

négliges ma voix comme pets de ton cul

They say nothing to me in a very loud way.

The thought that insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep her heart contented and her face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same.

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.