Quotes About Insignificance

I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain. Some stupid, vestigial part. The way humans have appendixes, even though they're pointless and mainly just a pain in the butt and people never even think about them unless they have to have them removed.

struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.

Nothing can play havoc with your sense of scale better than looking deeply into the night skies. It can leave you feeling immense and privileged one minute, minuscule and insignificant the next.

Credeti c? tr?im în centrul universului. Eu v? spun c? tr?im în centrul curtii unei ferme. PoziÈ›ia noastr? este atat de obscur?, încat nu v? puteÈ›i da seama cât este de obscur?.

He who grows smaller and smaller in God's grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.

To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things. And even this universe may be a speck in a multitude of actual and possible universes.

Soon human meaning would be bleached from the rocks, the landscape would assume its beauty and draw him in; the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things. And even this universe may be a speck in a multitude of actual and possible universes.

the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

I don't want to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don't even see you.

A celebration of insignificance. Is that all we are in the end?

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in the world of little things.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny.

that moment, I sensed my insignificance more than at any other moment in my life. It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny.