World Quotes

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

~ Carl Sagan

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With clinging tendrils, one adheres;The other rises forcibly in questOf rarefied ancestral spheres.If there be spirits in the airThat hold their sway between the earth and sky,Descend out of the golden vapors thereAnd sweep me into iridescent life.Oh, came a magic cloak into my handsTo carry me to distant lands,I should not trade it for the choicest gown,Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that accumulates new sinsand to the ancient makes recompense.I am exiled from your worldof pride polite, by pride defrauded,I am the king without crown.I am the passion without wordswithout stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war,is my same force that make me sick

~ Hermann Hesse

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because of the power of the media, for millions of men and women the only venue where moral questions are discussed and weighed is the talk show, where more often than not the primary aim is to entertain, even shock, not to think. When Geraldo and Oprah become the arbiters of public morality, when the opinion of the latest media personality is sought on everything from abortion to transvestites, when banality is mistaken for profundity because [it's] uttered by a movie star or a basketball player, it is not surprising that there is less thought than hype. Oprah shapes more of the nation's grasp of right and wrong than most of the pulpits in the land. Personal and social ethics have been removed from the realms of truth and structures of thoughts; they have not only been relativized, but they have been democratized and trivialized.

~ D.a. Carson

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

~ Colson Whitehead

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

~ Molière

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

~ Fran Lebowitz

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

~ Inio Asano

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

~ Sri Chinmoy

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

~ Alberto Manguel

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

~ Alan W. Watts

When you live in love and light, you will not go unseen; ignite the world with every flame of your being.

~ Alexandra Elle

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

~ Tite Kubo

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

~ Bede Jarrett

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

~ Hermann Hesse

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

~ Jeannette Walls

World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

And as men believe, so their world goes. - Merlin

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

~ Darren Shan

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.

~ Vera Nazarian

I guess the whole world is made up of things coming together and things falling apart

~ Emily Wing Smith

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

~ Criss Jami

The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox.

~ Kedar Joshi

The dawn of beauty always comes after night.

~ Sorin Cerin

Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.

~ Rebecca Rupp

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

~ Maimonides

When you become a father, it changes you. Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.

~ Mark Lawrence

...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

~ Jean Hatzfeld

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

~ Suzanne Collins

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

~ Kim Edwards

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

~ Albert Camus

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

~ Kami Garcia

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien