Insignificant Quotes

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on any single object and hence, willy-nilly, we fragment all our works into trivia and charming toys. We have the marvellous gift of making everything insignificant.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.”
― Ken Poirot

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“day 3: being small does not mean the same thimg as being insignificamt.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“I prefer feeling insignificant," said Jess.
"I don't believe that."
"I didn't say worthless, I said insignificant, as in the grand scheme of things."
"But why?"
"Because humans have such a complex. We're so self-involved. You have to get out to a place like this to remember how small humanity really is."
And Jess was right. Numbers didn't matter here. Money didn't count, and all the words and glances, the quick exchanges that built or tore down reputations had no meaning in this place. The air was moist. Fallen leaves, spreading branches, and crisscrossing roots wicked water, so that the trees seemed to drink the misty air.
Jess said, "All your worries fade away, because..."
Emily finished her thought. "The trees put everything in perspective.”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“I don't care who you may be--I don't want to know; it signifies very little to-day.”
― Henry James, The Aspern Papers

“We often see ourselves as small, insignificant citizens, but God sees in us as His messengers”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Your calling may seem insignificant to you, but to God it is very significant”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It all just makes you feel insignificant, doesn’t it? You spend your life barely surviving the grind, living in an endless cycle, doing the same thing over and over again, depending on drugs and the numbness they bring to see another day… and it’s all for nothing. In the grand scheme of things, you’re nothing.'

He thinks on it for a while. ‘It makes a lot of things insignificant, true,’ he finally says. ‘The things we spend our lives worrying about, the pressure society puts on us… it suddenly seems like nothing in the face of the infinity of the universe or the endlessness of time. But look at yourself,’ he says.

She scrunches up her face, half frowning, half smiling. ‘Myself?’

‘Where did you come from?’

‘The city?’

‘Before that.’

‘Eh, my parents?’

He nods. ‘And where did your parents come from?’

‘Their parents,’ she says, smiling now but still confused.

‘Right. And we all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be just the right distance from the Sun, which had to be just the right temperature. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist just the way they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way.’ He turns to face her, and she returns his gaze. ‘We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman

“I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“The impeachment of President Trump confirmed the laws are insignificant.”
― Steven Magee

“Why?' I asked. 'Why be so generous?' Lucien gave me a look that suggested he had no idea, either, given that I'd murdered their companion, but Tamlin stared at me for a long moment.

'I kill too often as it is,' Tamlin said finally, shrugging his broad shoulders. 'And you're insignificant enough to not ruffle this estate. Unless you decide to start killing us.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Holy shit are we insignificant.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Men Hammerøe ligger der inde med Land,
Beskicket for en residerende Mand,
Som Tienesten bør at forrette;
Indbyggerne have der ligedan Kaar,
Som andre der pløyer og høster og slaar,
Thi kand jeg ey videre sette.”
― Petter Dass, The Trumpet of Nordland

“If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Even if any institution is full of resources, and ability, but it is devoid of common sense, and general aptitude; its validity, and approach is insignificant.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Don't let minor issues fester beyond their true value, either take action or shift pesky issues to the dustbin of the insignificant.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“It all just makes you feel insignificant, doesn’t it? You spend your life barely surviving the grind, living in an endless cycle, doing the same thing over and over again, depending on drugs and the numbness they bring to see another day… and it’s all for nothing. In the grand scheme of things, you’re nothing.'

He thinks on it for a while. ‘It makes a lot of things insignificant, true,’ he finally says. ‘The things we spend our lives worrying about, the pressure society puts on us… it suddenly seems like nothing in the face of the infinity of the universe or the endlessness of time. But look at yourself,’ he says.

She scrunches up her face, half frowning, half smiling. ‘Myself?’

‘Where did you come from?’

‘The city?’

‘Before that.’

‘Eh, my parents?’

He nods. ‘And where did your parents come from?’

‘Their parents,’ she says, smiling now but still confused.

‘Right. And we all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be the right distance from the Sun, and the Sun had to be the right size and age. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist exactly like they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way.’ He turns to face her, and she returns his gaze. ‘We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“There is nothing insignificant before God. Every single situation counts. That is why you should count on Him.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“To own something means that it is so small in stature and importance that it can be possessed. And I don’t know if there’s anything in life that’s really that small.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“⁠Ignorant people are like oysters, because they are idiots, insignificantly small and do not care for anything, they live closed and only open in one or another circumstance. This is the meaning of ignorance”
― JOÃO GABRIEL GONDIM BARCELOS G. MACIEL

“I'm so insignificant, that the world changed without me.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“She was nothing before that view, these mountains. As insignificant to any of it as one of the stones that still rattled in her boot. It was a blessed relief, to be nothing and no one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“We are creatures both brilliant and ignorant, significant and insignificant: broken, whole, and healing.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

“This Being chose to rip me from a fleeting and insignificant life in which I was decaying into dust, and give me life eternal, making me an object more immortal, more imperishable than the rocks themselves.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose