History Quotes / InsignificantLittleBluePlanet

->''"What does [[Franchise/TheAvengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes]] mean to one who rules the universe?"''

->"Viewing so far away the Earth is like a mysterious blue sapphire."\\
"Aside from my Dora Scope the planet's just a swarm of filthy trash."

-->-- '''Adam''', ''The Tragedy of Man''

'''Peridot:''' Apparently more than ''you'', you...[[IronicEcho C]][[CatchphraseInsult L]][[AtomicFBomb O]][[HeelFaceTurn D]][[BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch !]]

-->-- '''Creator/YuriGagarin''

Without mercy [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 the tide's rolling in]]...''

!!!Fiction
->''The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding\\
In all of the directions it can whizz\\
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,\\
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.\\
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,\\
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,\\
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,\\
[[NoIntelligentLifeHere 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth]]''
-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', "Universe Song"

->''And crawling, on the planet's face,\\
Some insects, called the human race,\\
Lost in time, and lost in space\\
And meaning''
-->-- ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''

->''It's a great big universe\\
And we're all really puny\\
We're just tiny little specks\\
About the size of Mickey Rooney.\\
It's big and black and inky\\
And we are small and dinky\\
It's a big universe and we're not''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''

Without mercy the tide's rolling in...''

->'''Jasper:''' Why? Why protect this useless shell of a planet?\\
'''Peridot:''' It's not a shell. There's so much life, living here! That's what I'm doing! Living here!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Earthlings"

->'''Yellow Diamond:''' You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing that hideous rock off of our star maps! ''Is that clear?''\\
'''Peridot:''' ''I won't do it!'' [[HumansAreSpecial I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting]]!\\
'''Yellow Diamond:''' What do ''you'' know about the Earth?\\
'''Peridot:''' Apparently more than ''you'', you...[[IronicEcho C]][[CatchphraseInsult L]][[AtomicFBomb O]][[HeelFaceTurn D]][[BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch !]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Message Received"

->''Ah, Lucifer, look back upon our Earth;\\
First did the flowers vanish from our sight,\\
And then the swaying branches of the woods;\\
The well-known landscape, with its pleasant haunts\\
Merged fast into a flat plain, featureless,\\
And every landmark faded and grew dim.\\
Then dwindled mighty rocks to clods of earth,\\
The cloud that lightning veils and thunder's roar -\\
The voice of God to them which dwell below -\\
We saw as vapour driven by the wind.\\
The boundless ocean's ever surging waves,\\
Where are they now? A shadow on the globe\\
That turns and mingles with a thousand stars.\\
And yet that Earth was all the world for us.''
-->-- '''Adam''', ''The Tragedy of Man''

->Mostly harmless.
-->-- ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'''s (revised) entry for "The Earth" in its entirety.

->In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

->Earth? Horrible name for a planet. Might as well call it "Dirt". Planet Dirt.
-->-- '''Jetfire''', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

->Space is disease and death wrapped in a darkness and silence!
-->-- '''[=Dr. McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrek2009''

->My travels in the ancestral mazes have memorized uncounted places and events which I never desire to see repeated. I have seen peoples and planets in such numbers that they lose meaning even in imagination. Ohhh, the landscapes I have passed. The calligraphy of alien roads glimpsed from space and imprinted upon my innermost sight. The eroded sculpture of canyons and cliffs and galaxies has imprinted upon me the certain knowledge that I am a mote.
-->-- '''Leto Atreides II''' - ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune''

->Let's face facts: in the larger context of galactic civilization, we're the guys standing in the corner with no pants on clanking rocks together.
-->-- '''Michael Swaim''', "The 8 Most Misguided Sci-Fi Versions Of 2008"

->In one such world, in the corner of some backwater galaxy, humans rule over a senseless planet...However, that's about as important as a speck of dust in this pluralistic cosmos.
-->-- '''Pram''', ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom''

->That cloud of stars is our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our solar system is on the edge of it. We hurl through an incomprehensible darkness. In cosmic terms, we are subatomic particles in a grain of sand on an infinite beach.

-->-- ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''

-> "Viewing so far away the Earth is like a mysterious blue sapphire."\\
"Aside from my Dora Scope the planet's just a swarm of filthy trash."

->Until one day... very deep in a 6th-rate galaxy called 'The Milky Way'... circling around a 4th-rate star called 'The Sun'... on a 10th-rate planet, a strange creature appeared... a strange creature called 'Man'...
-->-- '''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''', ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie''

->What does [[Franchise/TheAvengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes]] mean to one who rules the universe?

->''"Last year, Earth had a visit from another planet that had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned."''
-->--'''ComicBook/NickFury''', ''Film/TheAvengers2012''

->''"Your sentimental attachment is grotesque. Even you must realize how worthless they are. Such a savage world. Its scientific achievements paltry, its weapons unimpressive. To think that two Kryptonians chose to call this planet home sickens me. What could Earth have possibly offered you?"''
-->--'''Brainiac''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound''

!!!Religion and Mythology
->"When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?"
-->-- [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalm 8:3-4]]

!!!RealLife
->You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "[[SophisticatedAsHell Look at that, you son of a bitch]]."

->The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

->It is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless.

->Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.\\\
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

->The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

->Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.

->What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck of the cosmos.\\\
Have a nice day.

->It is only in light of the sheer and painful triviality of human existence in terms of the universe that creationism can be understood... This view treats recorded history as, effectively, [[IRejectYourReality the only form of history.]] Various dates exist, the most famous of which is probably Archbishop James Ussher's due to its alarming specificity, claiming that the universe was created the evening before October 26, 4004 BC. Physical evidence shows that this is only off by a factor of 2.25 million or so. This scale of error necessitates the assumption of [[GodIsEvil a Cartesian Demon of a God]] who laid an elaborate fossil record for, presumably, the sole purpose of fucking with arrogant humans. The fact that this view is preferred by some to science and empiricism speaks of the sheer damage done to the anthropic principle by science -- it is so unseated that a malevolent god is actually a comfort in the face of the sheer arbitrariness of humanity on the geologic scale.

->"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
-->-- [[Literature/TheBible Psalm 8:3-4]]

-->-- '''Edgar Mitchell''', [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace the sixth human to walk on the Moon]], reflecting on his experience during Apollo 14

-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', 'Universe Song'

->Earth? Horrible name for a planet. Might as well call it 'Dirt'. Planet Dirt.
-->--'''Jetfire''', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

-->--'''[=Dr. McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrek2009''

-->--'''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''', ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie''

-->--[[Literature/TheBible Psalm 8:3-4]]

-->--'''David Hume''', ''On Suicide ''

-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell'''

-->--'''Martin Amis '''

-->--'''Creator/LewisBlack''', ''Nothing's Sacred''

'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth''