“Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.” — Frank Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“Realizing our insignificance in the face of the universe and God, we should not be artificially puffed-up but should be submissive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being… — John Paul Bernett 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
“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered… — Matt Haig 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
When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the… — Garth Stein 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
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich 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
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly Copy Share Image
One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.” — William Golding Copy Share Image