Quotes About Insignificance

Regardez le ciel. Pensez au cosmos. Cherchez la grandeur à chaque occasion, afin de voir votre propre petitesse.

Nothing makes you feel smaller, more trivial, than such a vast transformation inside your own mind while the world carries on, oblivious.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide they pass right through.

When you look up at the sky, on a clear night, and see thousands of stars and planets, realise that very little is happening on most of them. The important stuff is further away.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.

All of our earthly concerns are quite transient compared to the sky.

What if nobody was still around who even faintly remembered your past life there? In that case, your entire existence upon the planet Earth held no more lasting meaning than a random pebble tossed into a pond: the few ripples were soon gone, leaving no mark. In a zero-sum world, your life might as well not have been lived.

Ja, crv, sitan i nevažan, šta sam mogao u?initi njima, slonovima? Kakvu sam im štetu mogao nanijeti? Ja sam pesnica koja je udarila u zid. Ja sam udarac koji boli onoga koji udara. Ja sam mali ?ovjek koji je zaboravio da je mali. Uvrijedio sam ih što se usu?ujem da mislim. Ja, ludi vrabac, pošao sam jastrebu u pohode. Jedva sam izvukao živu glavu.

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters—it is all the same.

Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.

But in the outside world, in places (on the rare occasions I visited them) where the vast blankness of the land and sky made even the enormous supermarkets seem tiny, where, to many, words like "Vassar" were just a random sequence of letters, where weather mattered more than most anything else, I often felt lost, irrelevant, fatuous. I

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

Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror of human insignificance at bay. It was routine to self-importance, this ability to kill and to rebuild, to catalog and stop any motion too directly pointing out human limitation and death.

There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

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.

So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

What could we do, then? We asked ourselves the question while crossing the dunes. Live? It's precisely in this kind of situation that, crushed by the sense of their own insignificance, people decide to have children; this is how the species reproduces, although less and less, it must be said.

vamos, que el sistema del espectáculo, obligado a producir un consenso repugnante, se había venido abajo hacía mucho tiempo bajo el peso de su propia insignificancia.

man would transcend his insignificance only to the extent to which it is possible to make himself symbolic, to incarnate alive a symbol in his own soul, that immanence.

It's important to remember that even the biggest person was, at one time, very, very small.

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