Quotes About Insignificance

Cómo iba yo a creer en el pecado, una idea tan hija del orgullo? Si Dios es creador del Universo entero, ¿puede sentirse ofendido por una sabandija que le salió mal y que araña la superficie de un pequeño planeta? Hace falta tener una exageradísima idea de lo que es el hombre para creerle capaz de ofender a un infinito creador.

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

What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we're nothing. We're dirt. On the other hand, we're the reason the universe was made.

He was one of those souls destined by God to understand just how little and insignificant they are, even though divine love makes them important to God. But they never have the joy of knowing that they are important. Society will always prevent that. They are just unwanted nuisances pricking the consciences of people who wish they would just disappear.

the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

At the bottom I was quite content, for though I have never had great cares I have never had so care-free a life as at the front. Everything is clear and simple. My rights and duties are prescribed. I need earn no money. My food is provided me, and if things go badly with me I have a thousend fellow-sufferers, and above all, the shadow of death reduces every problem to a pleasant insignificance.

Esos relámpagos describen un vasto y convulso círculo que corta los frentes y parece reunir a amigos y enemigos en una misma obra de destrucción. El conjunto produce la impresión de un jubiloso triunfo de los elementos, de una ígnea erupción de la Tierra misma; frente a ello, el ser humano, que en pequeñas hordas oscuras cruza a la carrera las sombras, representa un papel minúsculo e insignificante.

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

The real heroes of history ... having been people like the rest of us, impress the child with his own insignificance when compared to them. Trying to be guided and inspired by an ideal that no human can fully reach is at least not defeating--but striving to duplicate the deeds of actual great persons seems hopeless to the child and creates feelings of inferiority: first, because one knows one cannot do so, and second, because one fears others might.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in a dark room with a mosquito

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

That's all we are, a few drops of water in a great river that doesn't know whether we are there or gone. And doesn't care

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Our "always in a hurry" ways of living seemed doubly insignificant. Intimacy with weather, terrain, and pronghorn taught me to hold each foot-worn trail in my mind as it deepened. I liked to think that a "green light" glowed inside those animals, instructing them how to survive and eat well. We humans might do the same and, in the process, vernalize our minds.

Cela rend modeste de voyager. On voit quelle petite place on occupe dans le monde.

He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided them into two classes: those he greeted because some chance had put him in contact with them, and those he did not greet. But both these categories of individuals were equally insignificant in his eyes. (An Old Man)

Nous sommes si infirmes, si désarmés, si ignorants, si petits, nous autres, sur ce grain de boue qui tourne délayé dans une goutte d'eau.

Bir damla suya kar???p dönen bu çamur tanesinin üzerindeki biz diÄŸerleri, öylesine dermans?z, öylesine silahs?z, öylesine bilgisiz, öylesine küçüÄŸüz ki.

Don't flatter yourself. We're all specks of dust in the universe.