“... love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.” — Thomas Hardy 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 fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain… — Anonymous 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
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
“...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Each person must develop a wholesome personal response to enduring the hardships of daily life and witnessing the discord, disharmony, dissension, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type… — Charles Darwin 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
...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
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
“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
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly 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
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson 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
“Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.” — Frank Easterbrook 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
“It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.” — Matt Haig 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
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
