Top 42 Quotes About Your Insignificance

#1. 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

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#2. 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

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#3. I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Orrin Woodward

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#4. One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Joseph Conrad

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#5. 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

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#6. If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!

Leo Tolstoy

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#7. Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Thomas Hardy

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#8. A man of the utmost insignificance.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

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#9. She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

Ian McEwan

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#10. But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.

N. Maria Kwami

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#11. For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Paul Davies

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#12. Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant.

Marty Rubin

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#13. 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

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#14. A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

Beverley Baxter

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#15. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Thomas Hardy

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#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

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#18. 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

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#19. Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Bernard Beckett

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#20. 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

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#21. 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

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#22. One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Albert Einstein

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#23. It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly, into almost any conversation, proclaiming her insignificance and ignorance, thereby assuring a correction.

Cathleen Schine

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#24. His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

William Golding

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#25. 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

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#26. Most people seemed to rate the discovery of America pretty highly; I'd have to say that, for me, it paled into insignificance beside the discovery of my prostate.

J.L. Merrow

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#27. Because of an apple Eden fell and Troy was destroyed.

Marty Rubin

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#28. Transcendence is a healthy dose of insignificance to a race whose root sin is pride. Transcendence cuts us all down to our proper proportion before an awesome God. That you and I are not significant is a wonderful, freeing discovery, and that's what church is for.

James MacDonald

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

James P. Gorman

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#30. Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Daniel Webster

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#31. The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

Colin Wilson

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#32. We realise our existence is confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
We come to our senses; we understand our utter insignificance.

Umera Ahmed

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

Marty Rubin

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#34. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Saul Bellow

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#35. To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

Jeffrey Fry

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#36. Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#37. Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field.

A.J. Darkholme

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#38. Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Anton Chekhov

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

Bryant McGill

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#40. Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.

Charles Dickens

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#41. 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

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#42. 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

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