Insignificant Quotes - Page 15

• What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

  James Boswell

  Life Is

  James Boswell (2008). “James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him”, p.188, Associated University Presse

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Hair, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

  Justina Chen

  Boys, Footnotes, One Thing

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• No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Reading, Hero, Writing

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• Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

  Dave Eggers

  Years, Remember, Forget

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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• 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 has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.

  Chris Wooding

  Race, People, Imagination

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• 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 an insignificant part.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Want, Ridiculous, Given

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• 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 things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Everyday, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.434, St. Martin's Press

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• For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.

  Yann Martel

  Agony, Suffering, Next

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pain, Men, Mind

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.131, Random House

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• 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 so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

  Virginia Woolf

  Struggle, Mean, Triumph

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Essays Virginia Woolf”, p.446, Random House

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• 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 surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Intelligent, Men

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• 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 well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

  Marguerite Duras

  Long Ago, Voice, Forever

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• 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 distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Eye, Light

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• If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Role Models, Roles

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• 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 an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.

  Bruno Schulz

  Eye, Order, Perspective

  Bruno Schulz (2011). “The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Needs, Bigs

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.99, University of Iowa Press

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• When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

  Cat Stevens

  Religious, Space, Size

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Factories

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• Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are. It’s like the mechanic who goes to fix the carburetor and in doing so accidentally puts a hole in the radiator and causes even more damage. Every person on this planet is connected. Sometimes those lines are easy to see, and others are more complex. You change one insignificant thing and you change the very core of humanity. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Fate, Simple

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• Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill your infant daughter and husband. Imagine what it was like to watch them die and then be taken and punished for something you didn’t do. To be stripped of your dignity and emotions because your father was embarrassed by a stupid, insignificant dream he’d had and he blamed everyone who walks in the dreams for it. You feel your pain, Aiden. I feel mine. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Dream, Brother

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• We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

  Jean Vanier

  Humanity, Important, Finals

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.152, Paulist Press

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• No living thing is insignificant.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Living Things

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2010). “The Search for WondLa”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Silly, Beer

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.122, Collector's Library

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