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
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
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
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
...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
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus 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
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
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
The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter 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
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
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
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
“There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed… — Henry Spencer Ashbee 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
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
“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
