“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy. — Albert Einstein 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
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
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley 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
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now. — Timothy Keller 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
“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
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years… — Liza Campbell 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
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter… — Laura Marling 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
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
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's… — Edwin Way Teale 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
“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
Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment -… — Aron Ralston 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
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
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
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
“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
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Studying the stars makes you come to grips with your insignificance pretty quickly.” — Diane Chamberlain 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
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
“Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal 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