Quotes about the world

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“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.”

“People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.”

“I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood”

“Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.”

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

“The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.”

“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”

“The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them”

“Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?”

“[Ida] "…It's a good world if you don't weaken."”

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”

“Where would I find enough leather
To cover the entire surface of the earth?
But with leather soles beneath my feet,
It’s as if the whole world has been covered.”

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”

“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

“It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”

“I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.”

“Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.”

“No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.”

“Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.”

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

“When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

“It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.”

“Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”

“Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian.”

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.”

“Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.”

“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”

“Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.”

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie”

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”

“Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.”

“Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”

“If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

“We've learned to see the world in gasps.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies.
I've seen millions of them.
I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember”

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”

“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”

“I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.”

“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”

“In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”

“Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”

“finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world”

“The still point in a turning world.”

“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”

“There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.”

“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in…”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.”

“Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no leaves.”

“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”

“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.”

“We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”

“The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.”

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”

“Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.”

“Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence.”

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”

“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

“The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.”

“How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.”

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

“The Whole World:
My favorite thing
is being your lap
while we sit there
together & love
the whole world.”

“There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?”

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

“Everyone will think I'm ugly."
Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.”

“Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.”

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”