World Quotes

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

~ John Green

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.

~ Bram Stoker

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

~ Lev Grossman

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

~ Rob Thomas

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly.

~ Chaim Potok

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

~ Neil Gaiman

If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

~ Toba Beta

The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

~ Anna Godbersen

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The world turned itself into a better place around him.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.

~ Janosch

This world has need of song and sword.

~ Patricia Briggs

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

~ Thomas Bernhard

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

~ George Eliot

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

~ Leah Wilson

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Strange world isn't it?

~ Stephenie Meyer

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

~ Chris Hart

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

~ Ravi Zacharias

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.

~ Jack Kerouac

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

~ Ray Bradbury

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.

~ Michael Edwards

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

~ Dave Hunt

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

~ Milan Kundera

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

~ Aimee Bender

The world needs more love at first sight.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

We had a kettle, we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

~ Thornton Wilder

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.

~ Stephen Sondheim

The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

~ Anna Quindlen

Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do.

~ Victor Williamson

There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Fuck the world and never tell them I love you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

~ Wendell Berry

The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.

~ Preeti Shenoy

And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back it’s grown big enough to grab you up in its teeth and shake you. That’s how it is. All our lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

~ Mark Lawrence

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

~ Leo Tolstoy