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Quotes About Unworldliness

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
~ Joseph McCarthy
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.
~ Robert Browning
My signature scent is naivete.
~ Willam Belli
Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the "unworldliness" of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.
~ Germaine Greer
It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness. Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day!
~ Henry Drummond