World Quotes

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

~ Hermann Hesse

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...

~ Leo Tolstoy

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

~ Vera Nazarian

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

~ Rick Riordan

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

~ Anne Frank

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

~ Jasper Fforde

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

~ William Shakespeare

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

~ Seán O'casey

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

~ William Shakespeare

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's no benchmark for how life's supposed to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

~ Isaac Marion

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

~ J.d. Stroube

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

~ Al-Hasan Al-Basri

The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.

~ Hajime Isayama

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief,its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

~ Omar Khayyám

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates

~ Dan Millman

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

~ Markus Zusak

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

~ Criss Jami

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.

~ Katherine Min

Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity

~ George Harrison

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

~ Rick Yancey

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

~ Frank Warren

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us.

~ Walt Whitman

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

~ Rick Riordan

Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.She was splintered wood and sea water.They said she reminded them of the war.On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense.You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty.You are her mother.Why did you not warn her,hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents,if her teeth are small colonies,if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders?What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot,her hands are a civil war,a refugee camp behind each ear,a body littered with ugly thingsbut God, doesn’t she wearthe world well.

~ Warsan Shire

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.

~ Joshua Harris

I change the world, the world changes me.

~ Libba Bray

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

~ Al-Maʿarri

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

~ Michel De Montaigne

All the world's a stage.

~ William Shakespeare

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

~ Robin Mckinley

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

~ George Steiner

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

~ Woodrow Wilson

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.

~ Osamu Dazai

If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

~ Suzy Kassem

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener, Man is the visitor.And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong tothat garden or is yet to be grown.

~ Kedar Joshi