Quotes About Significance

That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.

Is happiness the aim?" "I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good

It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.

I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered in our towns and cities on this pale blue dot of a planet, spending our allotted 30,000 days as best we can, in glorious insignificance.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.

Don't think your work matters more than it does.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things, Mrs Elm had said. You must always remember that.

Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.

I didn't go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn't see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.

Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.

Never understimate the big importance of small things.

She stepped outside, wondering whether a life could really be judged from just a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday. Or maybe that was all you needed.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things, Mrs Elm had said.

You could eat in the finest restaurants, you could partake in every sensual pleasure, you could sing on stage in Sao Paulo to twenty thousand people, you could soak up whole thunderstorms of applause, you could travel to the ends of the Earth, you could be followed by millions on the internet, you could win Olympic medals, but this was all meaningless without love.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide they pass right through.

That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days – some years – some decades – are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.

Is happiness the aim?' 'I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear.

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.