Quotes About Insignificance

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless

No human thing is of serious importance.

I'm not dissing you, I'm ignoring you there's a difference. Dissing you implies I actually think you're important. Claire - Ghost Town

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.

i see said the duke but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind [from memory...]

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

I like thinking," she added, "that the forest sounds the same as it did millions of years ago, and it will sound the same millions of years from now. I find the endlessness comforting. It puts my small problems into perspective. Like looking at the stars at night and realizing that everything I worried about all day is utterly insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather - men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

I lay and looked up through a mesh of twigs at the sky. It was very big, making me and my world look very small. There was something about that i liked. The words and tensions that cluttered life at 309, and made it hard to concentrate at school, slid away to nothing in that big sky

The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

In all the universe I'm just a speck of dust, but all I can do is keep trying.

I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.

This awesome, mighty God, who has just created the universe and put the stars in place with His fingers, now comes to a little speck of a planet called Earth and makes what appears to be a tiny insignificant speck of dust into the body of a man.

Only by the possession of a sense of humour am I saved from insignificance. To

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Oh, my bad...I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I'll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end