Quotes About Significance

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

I don't know why, but this seemed like one of the nicest things I had learned in the woods--that earthworms, lowly, confined to the darkness of the earth, could make just a little stir in the world.

Il y a des jours, des mois, des années interminables où il ne se passe presque rien. Il y a des minutes et des secondes qui contiennent tout un monde.

A living speck-the merest dab of life-capable of pleasure and pain, is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.

Les mots visibles sont comme des points de repère dans l'étendu. La signification de chacun d'eux est à la fois ponctuelle et tourbillonante; le sens nait de leur rapprochement comme l'éclair du choc électrique des nuages.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.

I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

Il me semblait en effet qu'une idée, aussi brillante fût-elle, n'était pas vraiment digne d'être retenue si, pour simplement s'en souvenir, il fallait la noter.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

It struck Glenn how their whole life had been made up of such little things.

two critical areas of life, everyday happiness and long-term impact,

One of the most compelling, universal human drives is the desire to feel that we make a difference—that because we were here, the world is a better place. Human beings are social animals, and there's something hardwired into us that needs to know that we've had an impact on the world.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

Everything alive is important; there's something greater, I know.

Corona apagó con rapidez el cigarrillo y sonrió. —¡No faltaba más!

Napoleon is said to have had hopes of August 15th. There is an irresistible attraction in the idea of linking one's name with a regularly recurring date.