World Quotes

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

~ Khaled Hosseini

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

~ Pliny The Elder

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world

~ Rinsai Rossetti

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?

~ Sorin Cerin

I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.

~ Nema Al-Araby

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.

~ Suzy Kassem

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

~ Sri Chinmoy

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

~ Haruki Murakami

You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing.

~ Omar Khayyám

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

~ William Hazlitt

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

~ Bridget Asher

Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

~ Haruki Murakami

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

~ Stevie Smith

The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected.

~ Avijeet Das

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

~ Louis L'amour

He'd solved the problem you see—and that's the way some people are. They are ceaselessly finding ways of getting to grips with the world, of surmounting certain antipathies so as to apply themselves to it that little bit more. It's quite admirable really, how they refuse to let anything come between them and the rest of it—Oh, the rest of it! Sort of there, sort of hovering there all the time. Different ideas come to me now and again—strategies I suppose that might inculcate a little more compatibility. I just don't know if I'll ever get the hang of it if you want to know—as a matter of fact I think I've left it a little too late to cultivate the necessary outlook.

~ Claire-Louise Bennett

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

~ Lewis Carroll

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.

~ Brent Weeks

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)

~ Prem Prakash

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

~ Jodi Picoult

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

~ Jane Austen

Don't pity this sinful world!Just pity those who made it so!

~ Toba Beta

...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

~ Dean Koontz

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

~ Sri Chinmoy

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

~ Floriano Martins

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

~ Alberto Manguel

Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight?

~ Sorin Cerin

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

~ Storm Jameson

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

~ Vera Nazarian

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

~ William Hazlitt

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

~ Alan W. Watts

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

~ Ann Brashares

...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

~ Sue Monk Kidd