Veronica Roth Quotes

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.

We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.