Top 19 Insignificance Of Man Quotes
#1. The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Mason Cooley
#2. How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#3. Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.
Jordan Ellenberg
#4. Every man was conscious of his own insignificance, aware that he was but a grain of sand in that ocean of humanity, and yet at the same time had a sense of power as a part of that vast whole.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. The immensity of the universe with the vastness of space and uncountable heavenly bodies is so outside our control and power. What is man compared to such awesome magnificence? It is a humbling experience to note one's insignificance.
Sharon Lathan
#6. What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
Ernest Becker
#7. Your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men are killers and
your worst men are
selling them
bullets
Charles Bukowski
#8. Income is an important determinant of people's satisfaction with their lives, but it is far less important than most people think. If everyone had the same income, the differences among people in life satisfaction would be reduced by less than 5 percent.
John Brockman
#9. Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
Natalie Imbruglia
#10. There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.
Henry Walter Bates
#11. It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.
Edwin Way Teale
#12. Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
Jack Butler Yeats
#13. Let your work speak for itself.
Friend
#14. You'll have to ask him in the next life," said Sol tiredly. "He's dead.
Dan Simmons
#15. To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?
Amor Towles
#16. I have this strange feeling that we're both on our way to someplace better.
Marie Marquardt
#17. Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Dale Peck
#18. Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson