Quotes About Significance

what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters

room after the tragedy, had put out the light. And during the night you heard no sound whatever. Miss Ellerslie? Forgive me for repeating my questions to you, but I am trying to recall any sound which may have reached your ears during your wakeful hours, but which you dismissed from your thoughts as of no significance

It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.

With the coming forward of Greece, mankind became the center of the universe, the most important thing in it. This was a revolution in thought. Human beings had counted for little heretofore. In Greece man first realized what mankind was.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

It seems cruel, she said, that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.' Yes, but meanwhile - Ah, meanwhile -

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain.

even his small contribution to the new state of things seemed to count, as each brick counts in a well-built wall.

Meanwhile everything matters — that concerns you.

a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.

It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters… any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: 'Use unknown.

Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.

Oh, there IS one, of course, but you'll never know it. The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the library.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

the sense of things remains in the intensity of their names

ISABEL: Entonces ¿de verdad crees que el arte vale más que la vida? MAURICIO: Siempre. Mira esa jacarandá del jardín: hoy vale porque da flor y sombra, pero mañana, cuando se muera como mueren los árboles, en silencio y de pie, nadie volverá a acordarse de él. En cambio si lo hubiera pintado un gran artista, viviría eternamente.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

for He could not have reminded those who witnessed His works, and heard Him preach, of all the prophets in turn, unless He had comprehended them all in His one person. The very diversity of opinion respecting Him, therefore, showed that a greater than Elias, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, had appeared.