Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!

— Leo Tolstoy

Struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.

— Garth Stein

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

— A.J. Darkholme

There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spares? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.

— Frank Cottrell Boyce

There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.

— Henry Spencer Ashbee

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

— A.J. Darkholme

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

— Tony DiTerlizzi

Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.

— David Hewson

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

— Jeffrey Fry

We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.

— Milan Kundera