Top 100 Insignificant Life Quotes
#1. What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell
#2. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
John Henry Jowett
#3. An insignificant life scares me more than death.
Sercan Leylek
#4. I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
Frank McCourt
#5. I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Laurence Overmire
#7. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle
Becki Tedford
#8. I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#9. Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life.
Andrew James Pritchard
#10. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#12. God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.
Max Anders
#13. Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
Jonas Mekas
#14. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#15. The greatest of blessings can come from what appear to be the smallest and most insignificant of things. Don't discredit anything or anyone. One person, one tiny thing, one little shift can change your life in enormous ways.
Patience W. Smith
#16. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
America Ferrera
#17. Not everything that's small is insignificant.
Adra
#18. When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.
Brandon J. Barnard
#19. In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
James E. Faust
#20. Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#21. Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.
Malcolm Gladwell
#22. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
Ernie J Zelinski
#24. The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.
Lisa Kleypas
#25. Well... I say that but what I really wish for, is this peacefully insignificant days, could just continue on forever.
Inio Asano
#26. 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
Jean Vanier
#27. The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
Chaim Potok
#28. The pivotal moments in your life are always made up of smaller pieces, things that seemed insignificant at time, but in fact brought you to where you needed to be.
Elizabeth Norris
#29. On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur
#30. Because man still feared death, feared disappearing into nothingness, feared how death made each life insignificant.
Gemma Malley
#31. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Oswald Chambers
#32. Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
Peter Jackson
#33. All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.
Kevin J. Anderson
#34. Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#35. when you are committed to a life purpose that is bigger than your problems, your problems become relatively insignificant and you will overcome them with ease.
Hal Elrod
#36. I live in a man's world, but every man is born of us. Every man draws life from our womb. Some of them may regard us as less than starving cattle, but they would be no more than semen on the ground if we were so insignificant.
Kenn Bivins
#37. Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
Paulo Freire
#38. No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#39. Unlike literary characters, our future is mostly shaped by small, trivial choices - seemingly insignificant, but deceptively fateful.
Guillermo Erades
#41. Her death was as insignificant as her life.
Mitch Albom
#42. Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#43. Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live.
Hiro Mashima
#44. The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.
Joseph Conrad
#45. My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.
Josh McDowell
#46. Don't try to leave insignificant things from your life,even don't think about it
only try to find great things in your life and always think about it, when you will get great things once then insignificant things will fall automatically from your life.
Arya Vidhan
#47. Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life - a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself.
Thomas Hardy
#49. I have learned that even the most insignificant thing that we do today will have an influence on whatever the future will bring us because even those that we see as trivial and meaningless have a purpose for happening.
Kcat Yarza
#50. Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering
Jon Krakauer
#51. No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.
Jerry Bridges
#52. On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. There's obviously some strange correspondence between the general outline of a life and that stream of petty events in which a person is constantly involved and regards as insignificant.
Victor Pelevin
#54. To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#55. When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.
Rick Warren
#56. They said my dreams were too insignificant to matter, and they might just be right. The thing however is, I owe it to myself to find out if they are. The only way I can do that is to keep dreaming and living my dream. If in the end they are right, at least I can tell myself I did my best.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#57. Life has many insignificant pursuits that add little or no value to your reality.
Steven Redhead
#58. Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
Albert Einstein
#59. Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.
Joyce Meyer
#60. The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are.
Ian Strang
#61. Never look at your life as something insignificant. Never forget those friends of yours that you loved.
Hiro Mashima
#62. The gift of life is present at every moment - even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.
Bryant McGill
#63. My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.
Nuala O'Faolain
#64. Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught of open violence? One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#65. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.
Leslye Walton
#66. Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
Victoria Osteen
#67. Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.
I tend to agree with the first part.
Will Fetters
#68. I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
Ben Affleck
#69. Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?
George Eliot
#70. Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
Marcel Proust
#71. People who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
Guy Debord
#72. You seem to think you're insignificant, but the truth is you're so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can't be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won't be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.
Ai Mi
#73. Her biggest goal in life was to have a happy family despite her shortcomings. Now all she wanted was to get as far away as possible. A man like Jack didn't deserve anything she had to offer, no matter how little and insignificant.
Madison Barlow
#74. Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#75. As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life ... Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities ...
William Alexander Percy
#76. I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.
Paul Solomon
#77. How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
Rebecca Goldstein
#78. Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.
Ole Hallesby
#79. In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.
Charles Holland Duell
#80. But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.
Marcel Proust
#81. Don't write in the name of friendship. Write because it's the only way to make this tiny, insignificant thing we call life into a legitimate and rewarding experience
Joel Dicker
#82. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley
#83. No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
Sandy Brewer
#84. Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
Orchid Ch'ng
#85. Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?
Garth Stein
#86. If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief
Sunday Adelaja
#88. A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.
Munia Khan
#89. Possibly the only way to maintain some sort of resemblance of normalcy was by thinking about insignificant things. That way, it didn't feel like my life was crumbling apart like a pastry.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#90. You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space.
Abhijit Naskar
#92. Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
#93. I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.
Sri Chinmoy
#94. He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life.
Jeffry R. Halverson
#95. There have been plenty of occasions in my life when I've felt small and insignificant, when I've wished to be something I'm not, but when Logan holds me like this, kisses me like this - like the universe starts and ends with me - I don't want to be anyone but myself.
Siobhan Davis
#96. Sometimes you feel like you're in control and in charge of your life and everything is grand. Other times you feel powerless and insignificant.
Robert J. Crane
#97. Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.
Aron Ralston
#98. Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
W. Somerset Maugham
#99. Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
Anita Diamant
#100. Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?
Lavie Tidhar
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