David Gemmell Quotes

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

We're just a weed in the universe

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

When things aren't going right, I can get out on the golf course, and when things are going really good on the court, I can go and enjoy the scenery, enjoy the weather. And when I'm too high, I can have golf humble me and beat me up a little bit.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.