World Quotes - Page 40

• Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

  David Abram

  Offering, Breathing, Drawing

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.61, Vintage

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• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

  Craig Silvey

  Paper, Weight, Strange

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• It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

  Mario Puzo

  Murder, Christmas Gift, Greetings

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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• After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

  Lauren Kate

  Sadness, Emotional, Parent

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.230, Delacorte Press

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• You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

  Jennifer Estep

  Ego, Enough, Bruised

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• If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

  Patrick Ness

  Want, Ends, Ifs

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ashes, Whole, Whole World

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• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liars, Should Have, Punishment

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  V. S. Naipaul

  Real, War, Boys

  V.S. Naipaul (2011). “Collected Short Fiction”, p.65, Everyman's Library

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• There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Promise, Bed

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra

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• What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Childhood, Miracle, Wonder

  "Autobiography". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It))

  Jason Mraz

  Ocean, Rocks, Eagles

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• I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

  David Mitchell

  Biblical, Civilization, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.487, Random House

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• Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Reading, Doors

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• ...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

  Stephen King

  Needs, Cadre, Smartass

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, People, Car

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique.” He grinned at me. “The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Running, Real

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• It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Littles, Inspired, Found

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.35, Atlântico Press

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• Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

  David Mitchell

  Lying, May, Bigs

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.401, Random House Group

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• How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are" "He cares about the world." "If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Drinking, Coffee, Years

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Something, Maybe”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Ashes, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not an idea, even; and not an escape. Actually, it is the opposite of an escape; it is a way back in, a way to enter and make sense of a world that occasionally seems harsh and terrible and mystifying. (From the "Author's Note" at the end).

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Opposites, Ideas

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• Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Cities, Water

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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