Quotes About Significance

Hang on to the words, he tells himself. The odd words, the old words, the rare ones. Valance. Norn. Serendipity. Pibroch. Lubricious. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We

I had nightmares myself. Shall I describe on for you? No, I will not....When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance. Last night I had a nightmare....You are of course fully in control of what you choose to read, and may pass over this dream of mine at will.

They should all be cheered by it, for isn't it what they want? What we all want: to leave a message behind us that has an effect, if only a dire one: a message that cannot be cancelled out.

your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but

Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?

She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names.

thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But

A man's worth is measured by his importance to society and to humanity generally

A minor point at such a moment.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important.

Not all bits have equal value.

Suzanne Young, The Treatment

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.