Quotes About Insignificance

the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

It mattered not from whence it came;

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

It is astonishing to see how many philosophical disputes collapse into insignificance the moment you subject them to this simple test of tracing a concrete consequence.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Marvin, her ?ey yolunda m??" Hay?r, hiçbir ?ey yolunda de?il. Bir sonraki güne? sistemine yakla??k 40.850.000.000.000 kilometre uzaktay?z. Samanyolu'nun çap? 100.000 ???k y?l?. Bir ???k yolu 9,46 milyar kilometre. Bu kavranamaz uzakl?klar?n yan?nda, ya?ad???m gezegen tamam?yla bir hiç. Bu durumda nas?l olmal?y?m? Hiçbir ?ekilde iyi olamayaca??m kesin.

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

comfort in the blithe superiority that is the refuge of the small.

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

The penalty for excessive ambition – what the Greeks called hubris – is exhaustion, while the price for resting on one's laurels is progressive insignificance and eventual decay.

There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.

Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.

It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise.

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole.

If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!