"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire."
Read quote
7 likes
World quotes
World
26.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to World
Browse quotes that often appear alongside world — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
World quotes (page 165 of 1309)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time"
Read quote
7 likes
"I enter the world called real as one enters a mist."
Read quote
7 likes
"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
Read quote
7 likes
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
Read quote
7 likes
"Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning."
Read quote
7 likes
"The world I was born into was one filled with music."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect."
Read quote
7 likes
"Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous."
Read quote
7 likes
"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."
Read quote
7 likes
"God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners."
Read quote
7 likes
"Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery."
Read quote
7 likes
"We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world."
Read quote
7 likes
"The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good."
Read quote
7 likes
"The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents"
Read quote
7 likes
"Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid."
Read quote
7 likes
"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into."
Read quote
7 likes
"You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself."
Read quote
7 likes
"Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world."
Read quote
7 likes
"Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego."
Read quote
7 likes