Significance Quotes
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy
Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions
Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
Reinhold Niebuhr (1940). “Why the Christian Church is Not Pacifist”
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
"Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.