35 Quotes About Insignificance

Effectively communicating is a key asset in life. Helping you to promote your initiatives and desires to others in life, you can bring value and significance to others. Here are some quotes about insignificance that helps to to focus on the matters closest to our hearts.

“Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.”

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”

“Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.”

“Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.”

“Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.”

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”

“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

“For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.”

“From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.”

“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 no tomorrow — there is just the moment that you are in.”

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

“I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.”

“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”

“If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.”

“In one such world, in the corner of some backwater galaxy, humans rule over a senseless planet…However, that’s about as important as a speck of dust in this pluralistic cosmos.”

“Let’s face facts: in the larger context of galactic civilization, we’re the guys standing in the corner with no pants on clanking rocks together.”

“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”

“Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.”

“Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.”

“Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.”

“Space is disease and death wrapped in a darkness and silence!”

“The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”

“The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

“The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.”

“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 was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.”

“There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.”

“There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.”

“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess.”

“We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment – the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers.”

“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 feelings of insignificance.”

“What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.”

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”

“Why do you love the woman you’re in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God’s own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe.”

Creating value for yourself and for your life will help to bring focus and strategic transformation.