Quotes About Insignificance

Uno straniero si meraviglierà certamente che si faccia tanto rumore per nulla. "Che tempesta in una tazza di tè!" esclamerà meravigliato. Ma se consideriamo quanto sia piccola, in ultima analisi, la coppa della gioia umana, come fa presto a riempirsi di lacrime, come si vuoti facilmente per la nostra inestinguibile sete di infinito, non ci si dovrà stupire dell'importanza che diamo a una tazza di tè.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

The people who don't like me are completely irrelevant to me, just as I'm irrelevant to them.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.

I can't even find a pond small enough to drown in without being ostentatious

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

It is like leaning over the edge of a canyon and feeling the wind whip by. Any illusions about your significance are wiped away; you realize how puny and inconsequential you are. And yet the beauty is so intoxicating that you only crave more. You long to have a bigger heart that could take it all in. That's a taste of what "the fear of the Lord" means.

sensed the insignificance of himself and the impertinent smallness of the boat, the loneliness that the sea can inspire. Those alone who have journeyed on the sea and in the sky, or across the great snows or over desert sands, know the feeling. All are vast, merciless, but most awesome of all is the sea, because it moves.

There were great advantages to being unimportant.

For the disciple of Jesus, being like a child means accepting oneself as being of little account, unimportant.

There was a time in the not too distant past when a thunderstorm caused grown men to shudder and feel small.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

I think I could die without its being noticed.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Over and over again, we see that when anyone willingly gives whatever resources they have to Him—whether it is nothing more than five smooth stones gathered from a dry streambed or five little loaves of bread and two dried sprats—then God's greater purpose can proceed. Small and insignificant? Undoubtedly. But on the day of decision, everything depended on those five smooth stones—with them, David killed Goliath and saved a nation.

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Never have I been so much alone I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird alone upon the great river, the servant of the gods.

At the end of the day this is nothing more than a blog. It's nice to hit them high notes - but REALLY - how significant do you think something that sort of sounds like the sound of a flatulent frog being run over by a clown car really needs to be?

We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.