Quotes about Insignificance

Sean M. Carroll

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Pol Pot

To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss

Saloth Sar Pol Pot. The mass murders took place in “killing fields” where the victims were buried alive or hacked and bludgeoned to death and then buried in mass graves. The twisted logic was that the capitalists and educated people must be eliminated and therefore, cities must be eliminated. Pol Pot and his associates calculated that only 2 million people were really needed to run Cambodia if it was only a rural agricultural state. So anyone who did not farm or have those skills was unnecessary to their concept of a state. See {631144}.

George III

Nothing of importance happened today.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States was signed that day.

Haruki Murakami

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

Rita Dove

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Werner Herzog

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

Richard Linklater

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

A. N. Wilson

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

Leonora Carrington

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce.

Yayoi Kusama

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Rush Limbaugh

She's got about as much respect as an iguana swimming around in your bathtub

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Mark Manson

Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.

John Nance Garner

The vice presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

It it alleged that in the original quotation "warm piss" was the phrase used, but the delicacies of the times caused the biographer to clean it up.

Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Marcus Aurelius

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Eva Peron

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Derren Brown

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

Philip K. Dick

What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Scott Adams

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

Jack Kerouac

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Isaac Watts

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Vitor Belfort

Some things really don't matter.

Insignificance Quotes