{"quotes":[{"text":"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.","author":"John Updike","tags":["9-11","greatness","horror","smallness","witness"],"id":23327,"author_id":"John+Updike"},{"text":"We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.","author":"Danielle Collobert","tags":["despair","everyday","recognition","smallness"],"id":137086,"author_id":"Danielle+Collobert"},{"text":"When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.","author":"Álvaro de Campos","tags":["alberto-caeiro","anti-humanist","beauty","calm","contentment","depression","eart","faithfulness","fresh-air","god","life","meaning","paganism","pantheism","poetry","reading","smallness","soul","transendence","ungodly","universe"],"id":176367,"author_id":"%C3%81lvaro+de+Campos"},{"text":"Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["accepting","awareness","big-man","great-man","great-man","greatness","greatness","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","reality","smallness","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":332419,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wish to remember and praise the beauty of smallness, in order to banish the Goliath of loneliness.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["goliath","largeness","loneliness","smallness","subversion"],"id":378166,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.","author":"Georgia O'Keeffe","tags":["infinity","nature","smallness","understanding","world"],"id":379888,"author_id":"Georgia+O%27Keeffe"},{"text":"We are paint streaked runners,deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a very smallclam ina verybig ocean.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["born-again","discovery","freedom","insignificant","memoir","new","revolution","self-discovery","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","smallness","taylor-rhodes","young-adult-nonfiction","youth","youthfulness"],"id":426172,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in. ","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["bigness","despair","desperation","exasperation","eyes","indifference","nationality","peace","personal","public","smallness","war"],"id":444083,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}