World Quotes - Page 23

• There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Memories, Play, Giving

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• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dreamer, Singers, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “Intentions”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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• If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Blow, Noses, Written

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• The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

  Joshua Foer

  Remember, Processing

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.148, Penguin

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• Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Giving, People

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, Let Me

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• My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Splits, Whole

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1494, Zebra Books

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• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Distance, School, Perfect

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Needs, Faults

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• dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

  e. e. cummings

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Taken, Views, Confusion

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• People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Melting, Emotion

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Affection, This World

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• To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Prejudice, Passionate

  "The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chödrön, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fashion, Army, Uniforms

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Second Chance, Sometimes, Accepting

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• Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Order, People

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• Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

  Pat Conroy

  Queens, Moving, Black

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• He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Kindness, Little Sister

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

  E. Lockhart

  Giving Up, Crazy, People

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.214, Hot Key Books

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• I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Understanding, Doe

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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• As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Hair, Self, People

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• Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

  Paul Auster

  Heart, People, Broken

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.148, Faber & Faber

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• She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.

  Cassandra Clare

  Effort, Cost

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.195, Macmillan

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