Quotes About Insignificance

Aware of my own insignificance, I had at least managed for the time being to avoid anything that might have been considered shameful or unbecoming; yet here I was, tasting the bitterness of life to the very full.

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.

A mesquinhez dos homens' — costumava dizer — 'é um pavio em busca da chama'.

because he had been born to be forgotten.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

Die meisten Menschen interessieren einen wirklich nicht, habe ich die ganze Zeit gedacht, fast alle, denen wir begegnen, interessieren uns nicht, sie haben uns nichts zu bieten als ihre Massenarmseligkeit und ihre Massendummheit und langweilen uns dadurch immer und überall und wir haben naturgemäß für sie nicht das geringste übrig.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

For when you come to think of it, which is the real shape of the glowworm: the insignificant little creature crawling about on the palm of your hand, or the poetic spark that swims through the summer night?

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small concern of the world, and my ideas - a subjective confession.

Adam's eyes narrowed. "I've looked you up. You're small potatoes, Snowflake.

En la dimensión del cosmos y en el trayecto de la historia somos insignificantes, después de nuestra muerte todo sigue igual, como si jamás hubiéramos existido.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.