Quotes about the world

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“In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.”

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”

“I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.”

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

“‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"

"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."

"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”

“She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.”

“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire…”

“She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.”

“You are the central point about which his world spins.”

“The world won't come to me… so I must go to it.”

“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

“emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.”

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

“Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world”

“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”

“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”

“The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.”

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”

“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.”

“Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild…”

“We laugh & it pits the world against us.”

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

“When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.”

“The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”

“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”

“A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl”

“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”

“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”

“No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”

“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”

“It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”

“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it…”

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”

“More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.”

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”

“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

“He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.”

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”

“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”

“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”

“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”

“You write in order to change the world… if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”

“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”

“i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world”

“Do you love him?"
There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.”

“Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.”

“The world is an inherently unfair place.”

“The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice…”

“Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.”

“I knew then that Jocelyn would never come back to me, because of you. You are the only thing in the world she ever loved more than she loved me. And because of that she hates me. And because of that, I hate the sight of you”

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!”

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”

“Storiesto be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

“It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”

“The less you are driven by what goes on in this material world, the more you will pay attention to its details.”

“For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.”

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”

“The ruminations are mine,

let

the world

be yours.”

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”

“Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.”

“God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that’s God’s doing.” She cut her eyes at me and smiled. “I think we know that’s men’s doing.”

“The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”

“DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.”

“In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination

and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.”

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.”

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

“I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”

“Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”