The World Quotes

“The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.”
― Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Why do you like jellyfish so much?" I asked.
"I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she said. "But one thing did occur to me when I was really focused on them. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two thirds of the earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see of it with the naked eye is the surface: the skin. We hardly know anything about what's beneath the skin.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange?”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“The world is more than the sum of its suffering. ”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”
― Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”
― Donald Davidson

“We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.”
― David and Leigh Eddings

“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”
― Gregory Maguire, Lost

“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection

“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
― Kathryn Schulz

“The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“I have no complaints, except for the world.”
― Barbara Kruger

“The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.”
― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.

“We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“I want the world to bleed when it brushes up against me.”
― Jonathan Douglas Duran, I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again

“One can be rich by possessing many things, but that will ultimately be to befooling yourself. You come empty-handed into the world, and you will leave the world empty-handed. All your possessions will haveto be left behind. 
You can waste your whole life in accumulating possessions, but you are not really gaining anything through life. Instead you are wasting an opportunity to be really rich. The real richness is something inner. It has nothing to do with outer things. It does not mean that you have to be against things. It does not mean that you have to be against life. You can enjoy things and you can enjoy life in all its joy and beauty. But remember that's not all. 
Your real treasure is within you. Do not get lost in the noise and the jungle of the world. Meditation is the greatest richness, because it makes you aware about your own real treasure within you. And the key to your own real treasure within you is through meditation, through silence and through  awareness. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart