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A celebration of insignificance. Is that all we are in the end? — Steven Erikson

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy. — Albert Einstein

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus

We need to overcome this fear of insignificance and replace it with a mind-set of contribution. — Todd Henry

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. — George S. Patton

A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them. — Frank Easterbrook

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant. — Tony DiTerlizzi

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. — Joseph Conrad

Because of an apple Eden fell and Troy was destroyed. — Marty Rubin

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman

I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly. — Jane Austen

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. — Shannon L. Alder

To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next? — Amor Towles

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. — Ernest Becker

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing. — Marty Rubin

How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small. — Marty Rubin

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now. — Timothy Keller

If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant! — Leo Tolstoy

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

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure. — Orrin Woodward

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it. — Jeffrey Fry

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance. — W. H. Auden

Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field. — A.J. Darkholme

I feel I'm living in parentheses — Steven Wilson

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. — William Golding

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey

Despite every objection; they sank into insignificance - and in the end, love, was the answer to everything. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. — Joseph Brodsky

In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance. — Heimito Von Doderer

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. — Aesop

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance. — Mason Cooley

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death — Robert Asprin

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley

Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains. — Max Lucado

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just wish insignificance had more stature. — Andy Rooney

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing. — David Hewson

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance. — Bryant McGill

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. — Saul Bellow

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

the stars sometimes, and felt his worries fade away to insignificance amid the vastness of the universe. — Jay Northcote

What is so detestable about war is that it reduces the individual to complete insignificance. — David Gascoyne

The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being the first you. — John Paul Bernett

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme. — William Golding

The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance. — Steve Maraboli

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire

Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. — Charles Dickens

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. — Thomas Hardy

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R.C. Sproul

Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant. — Marty Rubin