Quotes About Insignificant

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

En el mar inmenso de galaxias y estrellas, somos un apartado rincón infinitesimal; entre los infinitos arabescos de formas que componen lo real, nosotros no somos más que un garabato entre muchos.

In the end words are just wind.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Tush! These are trifles, and mere old wives' tales.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

Of whom the world was not worthy.

So they ranged story against story, all insignificant in themselves but each with a meaning for them and their generation though incomprehensible to others; harmless recollections which evoked the monotonous, pleasant yet hard life of the townsmen, their own life.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

Even on social media, I'll post something creative or different and someone from the UK will comment on something insignificant like my outfit. It's such a problem over here, people can be very rude and judgemental.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

Trifles make the sum of life.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

all I had were words, which are as light and flimsy as air.

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

at this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.