Quotes About Significance

The existentialist will not ask, "What is this thing?" but "What does this thing signify for me?" Thus he will put the altogether subjective "significance" in place of the objective nature, which is not only the height of absurdity but also of pride and insolence. As true greatness " signifies" nothing for the little man, he will see in it only a kind of infirmity the better to be able to enjoy his own "significant" inflatedness.

Names are doors to ideas

love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

The monuments of Man are worthless if no one is left to carry their meaning.

What matters is, I will remember you, Cole. It can be hard to know how you impact people. Somewhere there might be entire kingdoms that will never forget you, where people young and old speak of you with awe and consider your birthday an important holiday.

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Every moment in our lives seems trivial," Zahel said. "Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots.

Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.

You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

It's all just in our heads." "Who cares if it's all in our heads?" Finally she looked at me, frowning. "Who cares?" I said. "Yes, it's all in my head. But pain is 'all in my head' too. Love is 'all in my head.' All the things that matter in life are the things you can't measure! The things our brains make up! Being made-up doesn't make them unimportant.

But I still wondered: if we didn't matter as individuals, then what were we saving the group for?

What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.

A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was.

He clutched to these names, repeating each one in his head, holding them like precious gemstones. The names mattered. The men mattered.

Goradel frowned at that. "I don't feel very expendable.

Well, perhaps by one definition. But it seems that either one—good or evil—has to be pursued for it to be significant. People today … it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous.

Wayne. You aren't the best I could do. You're the best there is. And no being, neither god nor mortal, could have wished for more than one such as you.

What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.