Unimportant Quotes

“I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“No matter how trivial the recollections seem, note them down, and try searching for a pattern in them.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“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

“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

“The regret, these two words were etched into my forehead, I was sure.”
― Vann Chow

“Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheeky little —”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Prequel

“If it is important, do it - every day.
If it is not important, don’t do it - at all.”
― J.R. Rim

“We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be kind to the things which are unimportant for you because at any time life can make them very important for you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty.

Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that he was thirty-five and a half, exactly five years older than she. Their birthdays were two days apart. It was absurd the way trivial facts lingered in the memory, facts as unimportant as what she had for dinner on Tuesday. Except that she couldn't remember last week's menu and she was annoyingly aware of Max Quinton's preference for lamb over beef, for apple tart over syllabub. He preferred Shakespeare to the modern poets, the country to the town.”
― Miranda Neville, The Second Seduction of a Lady

“If you keep giving importance to unimportant things, you can never achieve important things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Looking back, I now see that I was exaggerating. “Forever” was a big word for a seven-year-old. But feeling unimportant does feel like forever.”
― Alis Cerrahyan, Dance Like Nobody's Watching

“The whole of his life was only one long protest against his lack of importance: that, I’m sure, was what drove him to kill so many magnificent animals — some of the finest and most powerful in creation. One day, I won the confidence of a writer who comes regularly to Africa to kill his ration of elephants, lions and rhino. I had asked him where he got this need and he had had enough to drink to make him sincere: ‘All my life I’ve been half-dead with fear. Fear of living, fear of dying, fear of illness, fear of becoming impotent, fear of the inevitable physical decline. When it becomes intolerable, I come to Africa, and all my dread, all my fear, is concentrated on the charging rhino, on the lion rising slowly in front of me out of the grass, on the elephant that swerves in my direction. Then at last my dread becomes something tangible, something I can kill. I shoot, and for a while I’m delivered, I have complete peace, the animal has taken away with him in his sudden death all my accumulated terrors — for a few hours I’m rid of them. At the end of six weeks it amounts to a real cure.’ I’m sure there was something of that in Orsini — but above all, there was a violent protest against the smallness and impotence of being a man, the smallness and impotence of being Orsini. He had to kill a lot of elephants and lions to compensate for that.”
― Romain Gary

“Sometimes, if I stared at the ceiling long enough, it became the vast expanse of the starry night sky, and I became a small, unimportant thing that blew away in the wind.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“There is not necessarily a correlation between how much time or effort a thing demands and how important or useful it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Greed exhausts itself by filling every nook and cranny with all of the things that are nothing, which leaves no room for the things that are everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you ask people who are older about their experience with their first driving test, they often laugh about failed attempts because they perceive failing first time as unimportant. It was merely an inconvenience and didn’t have anything to do with their self-esteem, and probably not even how well they would ultimately drive!”
― Steve Peters