QuoteProject

Topic

Quotes on Whole World

258 quotes

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
Albert SchweitzerRead
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.
Saul BellowRead
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand
Leo TolstoyRead
And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.
Ernest HemingwayRead
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
Yukio MishimaRead
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David HumeRead
Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
C. S. LewisRead
The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
Ansel AdamsRead
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
Bob DylanRead
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!
Charles DickensRead
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.
Steven SpielbergRead
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
Ayn RandRead
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
Anais NinRead
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
Eric ClaptonRead
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
Ernest HemingwayRead
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
Gustave FlaubertRead
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
Neil GaimanRead
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
Yevgeny ZamyatinRead
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann HesseRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.

Whole World Quotes — Best Sayings & Wisdom | QuoteProject