“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
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
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter Copy Share Image
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation:… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that… — Ernest MacBride Copy Share Image
It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
