Quotes About Significance

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Words matter, words have import.

The person you became with her is worth being.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

A life is a life no matter how small

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

Life is too meaningful to die.

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.