World Quotes

Regardless of how beautiful the world could be; when you have no place in it, it is always ugly.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.

~ Christopher Hawke

Lean in a bit so you can see the beautiful world, but don't lean in too far because you can fall

~ Nina Boddin

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

~ Paulo Coelho

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

~ Criss Jami

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

~ Paul Hoffman

I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

How small life is hereand how big nothingness.The sky, tired of light,has given everything to the snow.The two trees bowtheir heads to each other.Clouds cross the world’ssilence in a circle dance

~ Robert Walser

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

~ Jay Woodman

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

~ Elizabeth George

You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice!

~ Jim George

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

~ J.d. Greear

The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is youniversity. YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

~ Annie Dillard

The universe can be incredible! Just try to take this moment in. This is really something!

~ Peter Davis

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

~ John Geddes

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

~ Virginia Woolf

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

~ Rick Riordan

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.

~ Eoin Colfer

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

~ Fred Hoyle

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world.

~ Nicolas Walter

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love!

~ Akshay Me

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

~ Jennifer Ott

A world without books would be a world not worth living in.

~ Eugenia Argerami

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

~ Brandon Reece Taylor

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

~ Salman Rushdie

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

~ Deb Caletti

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

~ Stephen Fry

Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.

~ William Steig

This is not just our world.

~ Mario Stinger

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

~ Gavriil Stiharul

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?

~ Charles De Lint

For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are the selfsame tale and contain as well all 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.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world, the difference between them is what they see.

~ Steve Maraboli