Quotes About Insignificance

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

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.

He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.