Quotes About Insignificance

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

Demons were all about ego, which meant that most demons had some kind of title. I think it made them feel better about their tiny…pitchforks.

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

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

We must not despise small things," she said at last, "for what at first glance may seem insignificant may well be the source of great beauty and truth.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Lo dicen como si no fuera ese el destino de casi todos nosotros, como si eso no fuera lo que le espera a todo el mundo desde su nacimiento, pasar por la tierra sin que su presencia la altere lo más mínimo, como si todos fuéramos sólo adornos, figurantes de un drama o figuras de fondo inmóviles hasta la eternidad en una pintura, masa indistinguible y prescindible y superflua, conmutables e invisibles todos, todos nadie.

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us. We may be snuffed out without an instant's warning, and for a brief day our friends speak of us with subdued voices. The following morning, while the first worm is busily engaged in testing the construction of our coffin, they are teeing up for the first hole to suffer more acute sorrow over a sliced ball than they did over our, to us, untimely demise.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity, and the sense of being of importance among the insignificant was enough to restore to Miss Bart the gratifying consciousness of power.

But there was more than that: a sense of irrelevance, of littleness, of futile bravado, in sitting there puffing my cigarette-smoke into the face of such a past.