World Quotes

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

~ Bill Courtney

Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ...

~ Charles Bukowski

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

~ Anthony Liccione

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

~ Leeann Taylor

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

~ Haruki Murakami

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

~ Patrick Swayze

Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle it,' she tells him. 'That though it is heavy, you are strong enough to carry it.

~ Damiana

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

~ Anthony Liccione

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

~ Kate Forsyth

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

~ James Gavin

God gave man the strength to conquer the world, but God gave woman a vagina to conquer man

~ Treasure Blue

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

~ Rivera Sun

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

~ Marilynne Robinson

It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.

~ Britney Spears

I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

~ Denice Envall

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

~ Shaun Hick

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

~ Jordan Beem

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.

~ Daniel Willey

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you...just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

~ Nina Jean Slack

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

~ Marilynne Robinson

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Every person in the world has to figure out what the right place for them is. It’s okay to be afraid, as long as you don’t allow the fear to take over your life.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

~ Gary Shteyngart

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

~ King Michael Of Romania

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us.

~ Jackson J. Spielvogel

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

~ Bertrand Russell

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

~ Charles Yu

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

~ Rick Riordan

He focused on the world before him, the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

~ Juliet Marillier

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

~ Ernst F. Schumacher