A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
“... love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
“It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.” — Matt Haig 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
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
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
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden 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
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
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs:… — John Lewis Gaddis 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
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky 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
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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that… — Francoise Gilot 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
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
“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
“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles,… — Steve Callahan Copy Share Image
