Quotes About Significance

Even a passing moment has its fertile past.

Ante esta visión siempre me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo insignificante.

Y helo aquí: en un estado indeporable, el escarabajo muerto en el sendero resplandece bajo el sol. El tiempo de una mirada basta para pensar en él: no le ha ocurrido nada importante, parece. Lo importante, dicen, es lo que nos atañe a nosotros. La vida, pero solo nuestra, o la muerte, pero también sólo nuestra, una muerte que así goza de su obligada primacía.

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I can say without exaggeration that I "devoted myself" to literature. For me, literature is not a matter of a career and future monuments but the excavating from myself of the maximum value of which I am capable. If it were to turn out that that which I write is inconsequential, then I am defeated not only as a writer but as a man.

What's so menacing about the universe? The size. Of course I was smaller then.

A lunch with Arthur Miller was something I could have only fantasized about as a boy, as a young man, even the week before. I asked a million questions, and I recall quite vividly that he confirmed for me that life was indeed meaningless.

Odio usar la palabra ´superarse´: se oye una prángana y además cursi. Solamente las prostitutas se superan: el dinero las hace más y más y más putas.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

Whatever else you may think, this place is not the centre of the universe." "It is," he said. "Because if we ever stopped believing that, we would all die.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Sometimes,PERSEVERANCE could simply mean EXTENDING YOUR IRRELEVANCE

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.

The more important you are, the later you arrive.

Etiam capillus unus habet umbrau. Even one hair has a shadow.

Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

We were alone in the dark, even though the enormous theater was filled with probably a thousand people. We were a tiny island in a sea of other people who didn't matter, who had no meaning, who were so stupid, so oblivious, so stuck in their own boring lives that they didn't even notice the huge, momentous, life-shattering event that was taking place right there in row L, between seats 102 and 104.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.