Quotes about the world

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“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

“The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.”

“… some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.
"I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.”

“But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him." "Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”

“She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”

“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!”

“People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.”

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”

“He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.”

“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

“For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.”

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”

“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

“None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.”

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”

“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”

“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive,. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic…”

“It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark.”

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

“There could never be innocence in a world without justice.”

“I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”

“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”

“The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.”

“how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?”

“A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds
And see the world in endless sleep
The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap
A single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raze.”

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

“We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.”

“because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.”

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

“That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.”

“your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.”

“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

“The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.”

“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.”

“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.”

“My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”

“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…”

“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”

“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”

“… The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”

“The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

“What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?”

“Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.”

“It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.”

“One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.”

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”

“He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.”

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”

“if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing”

“To those who will see, the world waits.”

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”

“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”

“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.”

“Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.”

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”

“What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?”

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”

“What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?”

“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”

“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

“Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.”