Quotes About Insignificance

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance.

He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.

He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

Everyone is small at night.

Dan tiba-tiba, aku menyadari dengan begitu jelas betapa kecilnya kita ini dibandingkan dengan lautan alam semesta. Seperti serangga yang sombong! Seperti amoeba yang sok! -Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

To be mediocre is not to be small. . . . We are physically small compared to the galaxies, but our minds encompass the universe

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

I believe that good people often do nothing because they cannot do everything. Because we are led to believe that our contribution is insignificant, we fail to contribute at all. But changing the world does not require that you possess the power to halt global injustice at the snap of fingers. Lao Tzu, philosopher and founder of Taoism, said that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Todas las preocupaciones de su vida pasada le parecían insignificantes e intrascendentes en comparación con el carácter definitivo de la muerte. Era una sensación sobrecogedora que quitaba la facultad de pensar, de moverse, de dirigir las extremidades para avanzar hacia la siguiente eventualidad

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.