World Quotes

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

~ Amy Plum

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

~ Dita Von Teese

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

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

~ L.j. Smith

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

~ Haruki Murakami

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

~ Lev Grossman

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

~ Yoko Ono

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

~ Paulo Coelho

We sat in the car & the night droppeddown until the only sounds werethe crickets &the dance of our voices& for a momentthe world becamesmall enough toroll back & forth between us.

~ Brian Andreas

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

~ Sophie Kinsella

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

~ Paul Auster

Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around, everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind, 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.

~ Douglas Petrie

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

~ Haruki Murakami

I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

~ Jenny Valentine

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

~ Terry Goodkind

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

~ L.m. Montgomery

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

~ Neil Gaiman

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

~ Neil Gaiman

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

~ Lois Lowry

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

~ Jack Kerouac

Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.

~ Aprilynne Pike

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

~ Voltaire

That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

~ Sophie Kinsella

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

~ Evelyn Waugh

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

~ Melina Marchetta

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

~ Criss Jami

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

~ Terry Pratchett

A voice within me is sobbing, You see that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don't listen to the advice of your own better half. Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and setatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, an finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world.Yours, Anne M. Frank.

~ Anne Frank

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.

~ Kiera Cass

And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

~ Taylor Swift

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations (and short ones).6. Notice The Stories Going On Around You.7. Notice PATTERNS. Make CONNECTIONS.8. DOCUMENT Your Findings (field notes) In A VAriety Of Ways.9. Incorporate Indeterminacy.10. Observe Movement.11. Create a Personal DIALOGUE With Your Environment. Talk to it.12. Trace Things Back to Their ORIGINS.13. Use ALL of the Senses In Your Investigations.

~ Keri Smith

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

~ Greta Garbo