World Quotes

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

~ Lian Hearn

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

~ Criss Jami

The world is a fairy tale, we are its guardians.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.

~ Rachel Corrie

I know you kids are angry, because the world isn't fair. Well, get over it, because it's never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that's the way it is. And they aren't going to give it up - to you or to me. And you can't blame them for it because if you had it, you wouldn't give it to them, either. But fighting each other isn't going to fix anything. All it's going to do is let everybody go on insisting that black and Hispanic kids are ignorant and violent. That's perfect. It's easy. If you're ignorant and violent, people who don't like you can kick you out of school or put you in jail. And it's you own fault.

~ Louanne Johnson

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

~ Michel De Montaigne

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

~ David Foster Wallace

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

~ Orson Scott Card

The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Mr. Nakata, this world is a terribly violent place. And nobody can escape the violence. Please keep that in mind. You can't be too cautious. The same holds true for cats and human beings.

~ Haruki Murakami

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

~ Alain De Botton

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~ Criss Jami

Who runs the world? Girls.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

~ Oswald Chambers

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.

~ Anne Ursu

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the surface and then there are all the things that glimmer and shift underneath it. And you know that not everyone believes in those things, that there are people—a great many people—who believe the world cannot be any more than what they can see with their eyes. But we know better.

~ Anne Ursu

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

~ Albert Camus

My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

~ Abdulrazak Gurnah

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.

~ İlhan Berk

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

~ Preston Sturges

The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.

~ Carol Emshwiller

I do not dispute with the world, it is the world that disputes with me. A speaker of Dhamma does not dispute with anyone in the world.

~ Bhikkus

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

~ Anne Ursu

The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.

~ Richard Connell

I still hear the world spinning.

~ Kamila Shamsie

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

~ Sorin Cerin

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

~ Vera Nazarian

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

~ Katherine Center

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

~ Catherine Lacey

High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

~ Steven Magee

This is a world where the educated get richer and the uneducated get poorer.

~ Harry H Harrison

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

~ Sigmund Freud

When the world is too much, create your own. I do it everyday.

~ Melody Lee

Most of the world's problems will be solved if literacy prevailed.

~ Mahrukh