Quotes About Insignificance Of Life

#1. Space was more appropriate for the Sith than for the Jedi. The invisible enslavement to gravity, the contained power of the stars, the utter insignificance of life ... Hyperspace, by contrast, was more suitable to the Jedi: nebulous, neither here nor

James Luceno

#2. 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

#3. Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Joseph Brodsky

#6. We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.

Megan Duke

#7. The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.

Francesca Lia Block

#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. Control never lasted. Eventually the illusion of time, the pull of gravity, and catastrophic events reminded everyone of their mortality and their utter insignificance in the great big world. Life was nothing more than one lone blink. Here today. Gone tomorrow.

Jewel E. Ann

#10. My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

David Hewson

#11. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

#12. Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

Bryant McGill

#13. The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance.

Steve Maraboli

#14. I feel I'm living in parentheses

Steven Wilson

#15. 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

#16. Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.

David Hewson

#17. There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Laurence Overmire

#18. Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.

Rumi

#19. 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

#20. The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Mason Cooley

#21. When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Robert Southwell

#22. How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small.

Marty Rubin

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

James P. Gorman

#24. I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

Michiel Huisman

#25. I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

William, Saroyan

#26. These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#27. In depression, the meaninglessness of every enterprise and every emotion, the meaninglessness of life itself, becomes self-evident. The only feeling left in this loveless state is insignificance. Life

Andrew Solomon

#28. The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.

Erich Von Daniken

#29. Live free, ride free, die free.

Tillie Cole

#30. I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Mary Cassatt

#31. A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.

Kilroy J. Oldster