„My world, my world… How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness.
- Wicket Witch of the North“

„The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.“

—  Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946

Source: Recapture the Wonder

„I know a girl;
She puts the color inside of my world.
But she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change.
And I've done all I can
To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands.
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me.Fathers, be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do.
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers,
So mothers, be good to your daughters too.“

—  John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977

Daughters
Song lyrics, Heavier Things (2003)

„For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?“

—  William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

„My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.“

—  Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

Source: Lost Girls, libro 3: Grande y terrible

„In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.“

—  Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981

1960's

„O World, why do you wish to persecute me?
How do I offend you, when I intend
only to fix beauty in my intellect,
and never my intellect fix on beauty?“

—  Juana Inés de la Cruz Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain 1651 - 1695

¿En perseguirme, mundo, qué interesas?
¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento
poner bellezas en mi entendimiento
y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?
Sonnet 146, as translated by Edith Grossman in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (2014)

„More pain inside of my brain than in the eyes of a little girl inside of a plane aimed at the World Trade!“

—  Eminem American rapper and actor 1972

"My Dad's Gone Crazy"
2000s

„My Cherie Amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine.“

—  Stevie Wonder American musician 1950

My Cherie Amour
Song lyrics

„This is just an ordinary day
Wipe the insecurities away
I can see that the darkness will erode
Looking out the corner of my eye
I can see that the sunshine will explode
Far across the desert in the sky
Beautiful girl
Won't you be my inspiration?
Beautiful girl
Don't you throw your love around
What in the world, what in the world
Could ever come between us?“

—  Dolores O'Riordan Irish singer 1971 - 2018

"Ordinary Day"
Are You Listening? (2007)

„I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

„Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.“

—  Russell Banks, book Continental Drift

Source: Continental Drift

„O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed!
To be young once more and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares with you, I’d
Give no inconsiderable sum.“

—  Charles Stuart Calverley British poet 1831 - 1884

First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.“

—  Thomas Paine English and American political activist 1737 - 1809

„Wop boys rock my world
I like to play with all my girls
But money makes me hard and tight
I love to bathe in cash and pearls“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

"Roller Coaster"
Song lyrics, Pretty Mess (2009)

„Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house… "
- Shigure Sohma“

—  Natsuki Takaya Manga artist 1973

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

„Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?“

—  Anthony Doerr, book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

„Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.“

—  Rene Balcer screenwriter, producer and director 1954

Det. Mike Logan in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

„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“

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

Source: Selected Poems

„My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961