Quotes About Insignificance

C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.

I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.

I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

rooted in incidents that at the time seemed insignificant.

Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but as a sort of comfort. I know it has been a comfort to me sometimes. Just remember that most people don't give a damn. When you remember it, you won't feel the necessity of taking the Apleys so seriously.

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

No se hallaba seguro de nada y eso era lo suyo: la reacción de su insignificancia ante lo imposible. No le agradaba explicarlo. No podía ni sabía.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.

Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

Am avut mereu aceeasi obsesie, pe tema inutilit??ii si a mor?ii, celelalte probleme n-au nicio importan??.

What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.

Encontramos, na angústia dos que habitam regiões insólitas, o aspecto demoníaco da vida, mas também sua insignificância, o que explica que ela seja privilégio dos medíocres. Somente estes últimos vivem a uma temperatura normal; os outros, um fogo devorante os consome.

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

Everything is unique—and insignificant.

I was just a tiny part of a huge universe, and nothing really mattered. Every single thing was temporary, and one day all of us would be gone without trace. It was an intensely soothing thought.

And us? Just another belch in the darkness. Sound but not word, noise without meaning.

She felt herself as the speck she was: a mote, a tiny struggling imperfect chip of life, lost in the surrounding waste of light and space.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

É revigorante ser lembrado, de vez em quando, de que, no mundo, não somos mais que partículas que podem ser varridas com a maior facilidade.

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.