Quotes About Insignificance

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular consciousness that, for better or for worse, placed the responsibility for what happens in history squarely on the people who live through history

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

Whenever I'm worried about anything,' said this guy Ben, 'I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important.' I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.

Whenever I'm worried about anything," said this guy Ben, "I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort. Svetlana

But when you get among such grandeur you get to feel how little you are and how foolish is human endeavor, except that which reunites us with the mighty force called God.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Downthehatch wasn't a big station-thirty thousand people at most-but that was enough to get lost in.

Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a speck in the cosmos. And here I am in this small clearing, on the surface of the heart, as transient and unnoticed to the universe as the dry blades of grass that are poking into my shirt. It's too much to comprehend up there, too enormous, and I'm so small when it's on top of me. It frightens me, like I'm being crushed.

I did not feel that I mattered.

Briand realized that even now he could not dismiss France's supposed savior outright. So, instead, he elevated him into insignificance, by making Joffre a marshal of France

amazing became the It utterance of the millennium's first decade. Never were so many so amazed at so much that amounts to so little. If

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa 40:15-18).

Para un marino a bordo de un barco, lo mismo que para el soldado en la batalla o para el feligrés arrodillado ante un sacerdote, la enormidad de la propia insignificancia resultaba tan evidente que el único consuelo era imaginarse gobernados por hombres que poseía certezas en lugar de preguntas.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

My wife deals with real problems. My problems aren't problems - they're inconveniences.

The universe is within us. We forget that and make up realities for ourselves that we are small and insignificant. Meditation brings us back to our natural state of consciousness.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?

Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.

the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under