The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own…

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

— Mason Cooley

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all.…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we…

— Billy Squier

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my…

— Daniel Webster

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

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 problem that's…

— Douglas Coupland

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance…

— Angelina Grimke

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity,…

— Charles Darwin

Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the…

— John Piper

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I feel I'm living in parentheses”

— Steven Wilson

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact…

— William Thomas

“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.”

— Anonymous

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not…

— Steven Callahan

“I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us--whether he is called Reverend or…

— Charlotte Rogan