Inconsequential Quotes

“We are all just floating in space, okay? Think about it, we're just ghosts in skeletons, inside skin bags, floating on a rock in space. If there is anything that would make you feel happy to do, please do it.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“The truth is...you're only as invisible as you feel, imaginary or not.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“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 fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration given to a priori knowledge regarding the circumstances being presented and as a result, arguments must be made empirically, under the assumption that assumptions themselves are, in fact, likely to give way to specious reasoning...Decisions must be made meticulously and according to specific, yet immeasurable criteria that can only be further manipulated by any cunning lawyer with the ability to make emotional pleas based on a requisite amount of inconsequential evidence to affect a decision beneficial to his clients. And so, in this respect, the law is capable of proving nothing except that its absurd attention to detail is really a kind of a façade meant to cover up the fact that a truly logical and just way to deal with such matters has not yet been devised. And the absence of adequate definition to its principles has given way to a kind of apathy among the men employed by the courts, who want nothing more now than to make a living for themselves and their families and not work themselves into too much of a frenzy about how little can be changed through their own initiative. Thus things aren’t likely to.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing.
You are nothing.
It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“I was born to be nothing and to have nothing.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“What seems inconsequential to us by reason of usage is in fact the founding notion of civilization. Language, art, mathematics, everything. Ultimately the world itself and all in it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.”
― Richard Paul Evans, A Winter Dream

“The unbearable suffering of my existence of struggle can be reduced only by realizing the purposelessness of it and everything else. Everything is futile.”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“An unsettled person will constantly rant about inconsequential things”
― Charmaine J Forde

“The most misrepresented value today is certainly the value of liberty. […] for a hundred years a society of merchants made an exclusive and unilateral use of liberty, looking upon it as a right rather than as a duty, and did not fear to use an ideal liberty, as often as it could, to justify a very real oppression. As a result, is there anything surprising in the fact that such a society asked art to be, not an instrument of liberation, but an inconsequential exercise and a mere entertainment?”
― Albert Camus