Insignificant Quotes

390 Insignificant quotes by 334 unique authors

An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center… — Bruno Schulz
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. — Aldous Huxley
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model. — Banksy
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for… — Marcel Proust
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long… — Haruki Murakami
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as… — Marguerite Duras
Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready… — Oswald Chambers
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being… — Marcel Proust
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that… — Yann Martel
The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial… — Lisa Kleypas
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's… — W. Somerset Maugham
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race… — Chris Wooding
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. — H. L. Mencken
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;… — Roland Barthes
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your… — Thomas Merton
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.… — Chaim Potok
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful. — Dave Eggers
How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double… — Og Mandino

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