When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and were consumed. How there was so much blind feeling. It was going on beyond the wall of her sight, out of her control. Unheard, unnoticed, the blood dropped into her hands and feet, so that she was anchored. Which she was glad for, because the light was so feeble and the blackness so strong that she felt as though she could drift away like a boat of skin, never to return, leaving only her crumpled dress.
Louise ErdrichTag: powerlessness insignificance
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 HewsonTag: life death grief tomorrow insignificance
My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.
David HewsonTag: life insignificance meaninglessness
His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
William GoldingTag: humanity god heaven hell nothingness insignificance
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
William GoldingTag: confusion insignificance universality sense-of-place
You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.
Shannon L. AlderTag: apathy mediocrity insignificance accomplishments
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
Roz SavageTag: power insignificance
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