Quotes about Insignificant
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
— Marcus Aurelius
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
— Anne Graham Lotz
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
— Paul Ricoeur
I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
— Anne Frank
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
— George Eliot
But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
— George Eliot
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you look at the vast size of the universe, and how insignificant and accidental human life is in it, that seems most implausible.
— Stephen Hawking
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
— John Henry Jowett
Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.
— Lewis Carroll
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
— Virginia Woolf