Insignificance Quotes

72 quotes by 65 authors

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. — Saul Bellow
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. — Aesop
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and… — Max Lucado
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. — Erich Fromm
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it… — Thomas Szasz
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight… — Lord Kelvin
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I… — Jim Butcher
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to… — Vasily Grossman
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can… — Abraham Lincoln
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men… — John Calvin
A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day Iâ€™ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in… — Steven Erikson
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and… — Charlie Haden
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the… — Edwin Way Teale
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I… — Roz Savage
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance. — Roz Savage

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