Quotes About Significance

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Every man is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath.

The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation.

Los dos días más importantes de tu vida son el día en que naces y el día en que descubres para qué

Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.

I hope it doesn't matter. I have a terrifying feeling that it does.

Yes, often, I am reminded of her, and in one of my vast array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt- an immense leap of an attempt- to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it. Here it is. One of a handful. The Book Thief. If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. I'll show you something.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you have finished just to stay near it

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

Words are so heavy.