World Quotes - Page 7

• It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Spiritual, Brave New World, Becoming

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Eye, Different

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin

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• Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Hurt, Fades

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• Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

  Dean Koontz

  Beautiful, Grace, Eternity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

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• All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Soul, Mind, Body

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• Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

  Tana French

  People, Wrecks, Tiny

  Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.428, Hachette UK

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• Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in her chair,yearning for confirmation that he gets it,that they are like-minded in their observations of others and the circumspect way they view the world. "Oh,let's see," he says,rubbing his jaw. "Superficial.Artificial.Sheep. They're more worried about how they come across to others than who they really are.They exhaust themselves in their pursuit of things that don't really matter.

  Emily Giffin

  Views, Sheep, Matter

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Religious, War, Blood

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Needs, Foolish

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

  William P. Young

  Children, Greed, Would Be

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

  James Jones

  Years, Littles, Might

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1090, Open Road Media

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• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Light, Doe

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• I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

  Ned Vizzini

  People, Sanctuary, Bathroom

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• The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

  Wendell Berry

  New World

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

  Chaim Potok

  Father, Papa, Said

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.33, Anchor

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• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  Hundred, Made, Concentration

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Night, Journey, Wonderful

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.22, Macmillan

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• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Unhappiness, Easier, Beats

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• What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

  Isaac Marion

  Trying

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

  Anthony Burgess

  Pain, Sleep, Forever

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Brother, Men, Higher

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.60, The Overlook Press

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