Quotes About Insignificance

Ahí reside nuestra grandeza: aun conociendo nuestra insignificancia, aspiramos al máximo. Lo que nos humaniza, lo que nos diferencia de los animales, es precisamente esa desfachatada ambición de ser felices. De controlar nuestras vidas y convertirnos en nuestros propios dioses.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

When the inhabitant of a democratic country compares himself individually with all those about him, he feels with pride that he is the equal of any one of them; but when he comes to survey the totality of his fellows, and to place himself in contrast to so huge a body, he is instantly overwhelmed by the sense of his own insignificance and weakness.

Nowhere do citizens seem more insignificant than in a democratic nation.

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

an ant's dream's funnier than ours - he has more of them faster and seems to give less of a shit -

There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right.

We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.

diddly-squat out of you tonight.

I get scared thinking about the yawning void of space and the maddening smallness of our solar system in it, and the smallness of our planet in that solar system and of my own voice in the dark.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

it wore him down, knowing how small he was... how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows... it wore him down until there was so little left in him... that he almost forgot who he really was.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

No one listened to the music, no one cared, drunk or sober; the noise was not meant for entertainment but for the sustaining of a certain psychological atmosphere, the pervasion of space, the dispersal of unseemly silences. So that a man without anything to say and unable to think could still imagine himself at the vortex of an activity, however meaningless.

Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

What are they among so many?