Quotes About Insignificance

I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum.

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

En el mar inmenso de galaxias y estrellas, somos un apartado rincón infinitesimal; entre los infinitos arabescos de formas que componen lo real, nosotros no somos más que un garabato entre muchos.

Yukar?da o kadar büyük bir uzay var ki, çok s?radan bir galaksinin bu ücra kö?esinde özel bir ?eyler oldu?unu dü?ünmek çocukça olur.

Nel mare immenso di galassie e di stelle, siamo un infinitesimo angolo sperduto; fra gli arabeschi infiniti di forme che compongono il reale, noi non siamo che un ghirigoro fra tanti

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.

It is like dust.  You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it.  It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth.  But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.  To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be forever on the go.  And so people are always 'on the go'.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

Rekao je da nije niko i ništa; putnik na zemlji, prolaznik u ovom prolaznom vremenu, senka na suncu...

He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust

No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.

Trotzdem konnte er sich nicht vorstellen, sein Leben damit zu verbringen, Grenzpfähle in die Erde zu treiben, Zäune zu errichten, das Land aufzuteilen. Er sah sich nicht als etwas Schweres, das Spuren hinterließ, sondern allenfalls als einen winzigen Fleck auf der Oberfläche der Erde, die zu fest schlief, um das Kratzen eines Ameisenfußes, das Raspeln von Schmetterlingszähnen, das Taumeln von Staub zu bemerken.

No se veía como un cuerpo pesado que va dejando un rastro, sino como algo parecido a una partícula liviana sobre la superficie de una tierra demasiado dormida como para notar el rasguño de las patas de las hormigas, el mordisqueo de las mariposas, el revoloteo del polvo.

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.