The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly 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 fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln 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
“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson 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
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
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
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
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
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley 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
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and… — William Thomas 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
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of… — Anonymous 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
Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.” — Anonymous 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
A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those… — Steven Erikson 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
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty,… — Mack Sennett Copy Share Image
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image