Quotes About Significance

Their life could be made up of thousands of simple moments. And still never be ordinary.

That the fate of the world rests with a girl who knows so little.

Because it's hard not to matter, even to someone you dislike.

The libidinal fantasy-stream only becomes significant for other people, i.e. capable of mediation, if it is socialised through fusion with the canon, while at the same time energizing and individualizing the canon or the conscience.

You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation—and that's almost always due to a recalibration of social ideologies that future generations will accept as normative.

So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing about them. I

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

To matter forever, you need to matter to those who don't care. And if that strikes you as sad, be sad.

The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered

You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.

Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever.

To the World He Was a Loser, But to Me He Was the World.

Everything means something, but not every something matters.

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

I don't believe something's important simply because I'm told it's important; and the inverse, perhaps more crucially, is also true: something isn't unimportant simply because it's been largely overlooked by others.

Yet it had only been two weeks, barely a drop in the bucket of her twenty-seven years on the planet. Was that really enough time to make such a momentous decision as would be asked of her tonight? Yet

My heart is only thinking of one person. Being able to make that person smile makes me very happy. Staying by that person's side makes me very happy. {...} If that person is happy, I will also be happy. He is different from others. He is special.

O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.