Quotes About Insignificance Of Human

#1. If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]

William Hazlitt

#2. All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.

M. Kirin

#3. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

Rollo May

#4. Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

Stephen King

#7. Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Roz Savage

#8. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

Igor Sikorsky

#9. Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human. It becomes part of our story. It is redeemed.

Gary Greenberg

#10. Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Tom Brown Jr.

#11. 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

#12. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

George S. Patton

#13. Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.

Trip Adler

#14. Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Groucho Marx

#15. If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

#16. And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.

Carl Sagan

#17. Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#18. I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.

Thomas Hardy

#19. I would stumble and fall all the time. Even with the right kind of shoes. The ground just has something against me!

Anonymous

#20. There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.

Gabriel Chevallier