Quotes About Insignificant

These happenings had occupied an incredibly short time, yet the youth felt that in them he had been made aged. New eyes were given to him. And the most startling thing was to learn suddenly that he was very insignificant. The officer spoke of the regiment as if he referred to a broom. Some part of the woods needed sweeping, perhaps, and he merely indicated a broom in a tone properly indifferent to its fate. It was war, no doubt, but it appeared strange.

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

I'm a bit-part actor in my own life

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Así los granos de arena pesan a veces como montañas en el destino de un ser humano, y lo que es gota de agua en el cauce de la generalidad, es río impetuoso en el de uno solo, o viceversa, según lo que nosotros llamamos antojos de allá arriba, y no es sino concierto sublime, que no podemos comprender, como no puede una hormiga tragarse el sol.

Little things affect little minds.

When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

the ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the slum.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

Descubrimos que no somos los protagonistas principales de la vida en el cosmos, sino un minúsculo epifenómeno, que hemos florecido durante un breve instante sobre la ola del aumento de entropía que va del big bang al silencioso vacío que le espera al futuro universo.

We - that indefinite we - with no name, no party, no argument and no power

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

En el verdadero hombre mediocre la cabeza es un simple adorno del cuerpo.

Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.