Quotes About World

For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.

It was like living entirely inside a book.

Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time.

The world's full of men like him. They just have different names, different reasons to hurt folks.

Lightheartedness was a treasure in a world too full of sorrows, a treasure little regarded and widely forfeited to agression, greed and horrendous tribal rituals.

Socialism has made everyday existence a living hell nearly everywhere it has been tried, all over the world.

I was someone who lived in anxiety. I felt anxiety was part of being conscious in the world; it was a prerequisite of a moral and ethical life. I don't mean the anxieties of Capital, I mean the anxieties of an unfinished world, the unfinished projects of the imagination, as Wilson Harris would put it.

Love is the most powerful force in the world. If people tell you that the opposite of love is fear, it is not so. Love just is. Love has no opposite. Remember that, dear one. Love has no opposite. Love just is. It is the answer to everything. Everything.

I don't want to disarm the world, she said. Or I do want to disarm the world but I want it to be done warily and realistically and in the full knowledge of what we're giving up.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.

This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world

I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.

I want to eat lunch. You want to eat lunch. We're people in the world. We need to eat and talk.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.

A sunset is the story of the world's day.

The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?

It's the special skill of an adolescent to imagine the end of the world as an adjunct to his own discontent.

we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.

watched the coffee bubble up through the center tube and perforated basket into the small pale globe. A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human. It was like a philosophical argument rendered in terms of the things of the world—water, metal, brown beans. I had never looked at coffee before.