Quotes on World

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.