Top 20 Quotes About The Insignificance Of Man
#1. The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Mason Cooley
#2. Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
Karl Kraus
#3. A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.
John Steinbeck
#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. For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
#6. 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
#7. What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
Ernest Becker
#8. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
Elizabeth Lesser
#10. Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.
Alwyn Hamilton
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters
#14. 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
#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. One of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.
Dervla Murphy
#17. Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#18. Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
Henry Ford
#20. right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse
right here, I have been turned into nothing
right now, I am negated
David Levithan
