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Quotes Tagged "insignificance"

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
Tags: time, nature-s-grandeur, insignificance
Please God, whatever I was I am no longer….All is forgotten, if not forgiven—it could have come to that. But I don’t trust the thought. I don’t know if it’s because it would be too easy or too terrible to imagine no one cares anymore.
— Tim Winton The Shepherd's Hut
Tags: time, self-knowledge, remorse, memory, insignificance, guilt
I counted the seconds passing. Time could go on forever like this, I thought again. Time would. Infinity loomed consistently and all at once, forever, with or without me. Amen.
— Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Tags: time, ottessa-moshfegh, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, meaninglessness, insignificance, infinity
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