Quotes About Insignificance

tolerance is] the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. There

This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.

My name is not important

Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.

I am indeed sorry to say this, but I fear your microscopic problems do not interest me.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.

She took disaster as it should be taken, dealing with it competently and thereby reducing it almost to insignificance.

We are nothing! When will we realize that the Earth itself is like one grain of sand on the vast beach of Creation?

When you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

it's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail.

well. Like all worlds, it had felt as wide as the universe when I was standing on it, but now I saw it for the little silver pebble it really was - a small round rock floating in an infinitely larger void, barriered from vacuum by the thinnest gasp of an atmosphere

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.

Hay un momento en que el astrónomo, debajo del gran telescopio, se convierte en microbio del microscopio de la luna que se asoma a observarle