Quotes About Unimportance

#1. 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

#2. It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food joints, there to try to fill with carbohydrates the spiritual and emotional emptiness gnawing inside them.

Ron Loewinsohn

#3. To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#4. There is power born of humility ... Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

Richie Norton

#5. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Ayn Rand

#6. Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

#7. You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

John C. Maxwell

#8. You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Haden

#9. You have to factor in the human propensity for simplification, Sverl, and for their inability to believe in their own demise and unimportance. It's the impulse behind the religions -

Neal Asher

#10. It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

John Logue

#11. May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.

Fernando Pessoa

#12. Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

John Fowles

#13. We educated people make a great display of humility when we meet, trying to get the better of each other in unimportance. It is usually only a formality, of course, a polite mask for our feelings of superiority.

John Spurling

#14. A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Bertrand Russell

#15. The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

R.H. Blyth

#16. It wasn't closure, really. But I'd said the right things. I'd hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn't get closure. Maybe some things weren't really worth it, or didn't really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.

Vee Hoffman

#17. Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#18. As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9

Greg McKeown

#19. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit.

Henry Miller

#20. People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

#21. One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

C.S. Lewis

#22. History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

William Golding

#23. The importance of unimportant things cannot be overstated.

Marty Rubin

#24. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Peter Stuyvesant

#25. It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about.

Marty Rubin

#26. It's true," he smiled, "not just in love, Nell, but hopeless, there's-no-helping-this-guy kind of in love with you.

Elizabeth Reyes

#27. Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

Wendy Beck

#28. I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

Eartha Kitt

#29. Write as if the wind will erase every word.

Marty Rubin

#30. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

H.G.Wells

#31. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

Stig Dagerman