Quotes About Insignificance

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don't be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth—remember that you are a Black Swan.

the ones we study and discuss and try to predict from reading the newspapers, have become increasingly inconsequential.

It is a comfortable thought, that the smallest and most turbid mud-puddle can contain its own picture of Heaven.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.

When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was important than any other. In fact in the ground scheme of things, everyone was equally useless

What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing

They were beautiful nothings" ? Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

Karayolunda seyreden arabalar?n ???klar?n? görebiliyorum. Sonu gelmeyen bir ???k ak???. Bu kadar insan. Ne yaparlar? Ne düÅŸünürler? Hepimiz öleceÄŸiz, hepimiz, ne sirk! Bunu bilmek birbirimizi daha çok sevmemiz için yeterli bir neden olmal?, ama deÄŸil. Son derece önemsiz ÅŸeyler bizi dehÅŸete sürükleyip dümdüz ediyor, yutuyor...

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.

NOBODIES HAVE LASTING SIGNIFICANCE

What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Her lack of magnificence in a magnificent world

The fact that he hated and feared his new environment was largely beside the point, for he had been taught long ago that what he thought and felt about any given subject was without question the least important thing in the world.

You'd have to crush a dozen Alexanders in an olive-press before you could extract enough humanity to make up an ordinary person. As a human being, he was tiny.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

To know God's names is to experience His nature, and that level of intimacy is reserved for those who humbly depend on Him. God will not share His glory with another. We must humble ourselves if we really want to know Him. We must realize our insignificance before we can recognize the significance that comes only through Him. We are to hallow His name and His name alone. You can't know His names until you forget your own.

Politically speaking, ours is an age of the pygmies.

Der Kollege hat einfach das gewisse - Nichts

The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean

they just didn't take Stephanie Coburn very seriously.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.