World Quotes - Page 30

• Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

  John Grisham

  Law, People, Safe

  John Grisham (1999). “The client: the street lawyer”

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• I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

  Ted Hughes

  Thinking, People, Doorways

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• If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Men, Sea

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Memories, Moving

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary World, Ecstasy, Tempo

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• I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Hate

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lust, Finding Yourself, Desert

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.270, Macmillan

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• In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

  Jill Shalvis

  People, Memos, Good Place

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.38, Harlequin

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• Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Contentment, Misery, Absurd

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.210, Penguin

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• I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Darcy, Jane

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

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• You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Ambition, Greatness

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, People, Needs

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• That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

  Lauren Oliver

  Views, Different, Looks

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• In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Promise, Would Be

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• You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jace, Clary Fray, City Of Glass

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1246, Simon and Schuster

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• A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Sleep, Odds

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.161, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wonderful, Whole

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.323, Penguin

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• Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Moving, Wine

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, Civilization

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• I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mad, Effort, Lasts

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• We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.

  Lauren Oliver

  Smart, Stupid, Animal

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Artist, Two

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• I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Dragons, Profound

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

  Sara Teasdale

  Sea, Shining, Saws

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

  Patrick Ness

  Trying, Save The World

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