World Quotes - Page 32

• And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Triumph, Should

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

  Dan Wells

  Life Is Too Short, Darkness, Our Lives

  Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Distance, Taken, Thinking

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Indiana University Press, Journals VII 1A 363, p. 40, 1967.

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• Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Trying, Doe, Way

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• What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.

  John Green

  Memories, Reality, Play

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• I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Heart, Men, Knows

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Good Life, Reflection, Done

  "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Kissing, Names

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

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• For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

  Tom Stoppard

  One Direction, Compass, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". Book by Tom Stoppard, August 24, 1966.

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• But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Halfway There, Needs, World Famous

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• She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

  James Joyce

  Dream, Heart, Men

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.699, Simon and Schuster

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• From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Art, Book, Two

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

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• Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

  John Milton

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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• Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.

  Craig Silvey

  Girl, Fall, Opposites

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• The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Real, Struggle

  "The Carnivorous Carnival". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

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• I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

  Craig Silvey

  People, This World, Knows

  Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.246, Random House

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• Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Cat, Alleys

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• In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, War, Believe

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• Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silly, Silly Things

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.352, Hachette UK

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• What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Lucky, Break

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• When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

  Tim O'Brien

  Attention, Pay, Saws

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

  Mira Grant

  Taken, Past, Thinking

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• The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

  Jim Harrison

  Nurse, Woods, Used

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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• I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mom, Smart, Thinking

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