Quotes About Insignificant

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afriad.

Little by little, and also in great leaps, life happened to me, and how insignificant this business is. These veins carried my blood, which I scarcely ever saw, I breathed the air of so many places without keeping a sample of any. In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.

she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.

You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it. -M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

He wondered at the way in which all man's petty striving seemed insignificant in this place, in this vast primeval world—and suddenly he thought that if all men, even those who had known nothing but the crowded ratlike scrambling of the cities, could be set down in this place, even for a brief space of time, then they might return to their lives cleansed and refreshed, their subsequent strivings might become less vicious, more attuned to the eternal groundswell of nature.

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand anything about me.

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.1 —MOTHER TERESA

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

It's nothing. It tastes like peppermint.

There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.

He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity... He knew it was Napoleon- his hero- but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him.

there is no subject so insignificant that it will not expand to infinity, if attention is concentrated on it.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

I feel so...tiny." Eva took in the entire starlit expanse. "So...insignificant." "Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

she leaned forward over the table and whispered: 'This calm is unnatural. It means something terrible is going to happen. Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness …

How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Too much information about nothing.