Quotes About Insignificant

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

Ma ora si rendeva conto che quello, come tradimento, era così piccolo che faceva ridere. Così piccolo che faceva piangere.

That was the worst of it. The sky didn't care. The Earth went on turning through an endlessness of dark and silence, and what happened in the thin scum seething over its crust didn't matter.

Jawa dan manusianya hanya sebuah pojokan tidak terlalu penting dalam keseluruhan bumi manusia.

Joseph Roth ends Flight Without End with the sentence: "No one in the whole world was as superfluous as he." I beg to differ. No one in the whole world is as superfluous as I. Not Franz Tunda, Roth's protagonist, no. I am the one who has no occupation, no desire, no hope, no ambition, not even any self-love.

In the grand scheme of stories, he was nothing, almost an unmentionable, for he was not an odd character or an interesting one. He was a thread, one of many, without which the tapestry would crumble, the yarn fray, and the tale unravel.

So many of the best things in life ultimately come to one through preliminaries utterly insignificant. The rule of the game seems to be that you must be unaware. If you enter it in a state of expectancy, with hope or dream or plan, it will not come to pass.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

faithful death that never forgets in the press of work the most insignificant of its children.

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

It's like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.

Aren't our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky?

An interesting fact about Starkley is that there are no interesting facts about Starkley.

Sometimes the smallest things can often make the biggest difference.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

Mostly harmless

Earth: mostly harmless

An accident is only a puzzle piece that hasn't yet found its place in the picture. A good detective collects all 'accidents,' no matter how insignificant.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

He was a small shrunken little man, so nondescript as to be practically nonexistent.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.