“... love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
“Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Having the Greatness of the Creator in your mind would make you realize the insignificance of the creatures in your view. — Ismail Copy Share Image
“Love brings its own intentions, and all other plans, hopes, and dreams fade to insignificance in the face of love.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“But consider the utter insignificance of what we think we do know, compared to what there is to know. To conclude that… — Mark Millstorm Copy Share Image
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“and the stars remind me of my own insignificance. The universe is huge, magnificent, boundless. My problem is a microscopic speck of… — Julie Corbin Copy Share Image
“As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It struck Drizzt as a simple truth, a plain reminder of how unknown the world about him really was, even to those,… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles,… — Steve Callahan Copy Share Image
“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders:… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image