Insignificance Quotes
72 quotes by 65 authors
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
— Saul Bellow
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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
— Aesop
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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
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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
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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
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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.
— Joseph Bayly
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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
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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
— Laurence Overmire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in…
— Steven Erikson
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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
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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
— Franz Grillparzer
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Insignificance Quotes
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