Quotes About World

Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.

It was a secret space, a place apart from the world where all time stood still.

Say what you want about the modern world and all its evils. But the emptiness of the area was starting to press on him.

Story is story, Stella said. It's a portal you walk through into another world. And this world—which usually sucks—just disappears.

There are so few silent spaces in this modern world; I have learned to relish the gift of insomnia.

Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.

The mind is infinitely larger than the world it inhabits. There is more to the human brain than machinery or meat. I believe in the soul, I thought suddenly. Everything I know about the brain tells me not to, but I believe in it still.

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.' 'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

I make nonsense of the world to help others make sense of it.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still.

The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Ellen had said that her mother was frightened of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.

there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor , is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods. Do you? I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.

Are we not all called on to yield our children back to the world, in the end?

Beloved, god-touched, great-souled… a saint, even?  The true sort, who moved through the world as silently as fishes, unnoticed by carnal eyes that focused only on outward domination and display.  Never on a small woman in a small town, being kind.  Soul by soul.