Quotes About World

The pain caused by life going wrong can trigger a response that is "so powerful that [the brain] tends to stay there [in a pained response] for a while, until something pushes it out of that corner, into a more flexible place." And if the world keeps causing you deep pain, of course you'll stay trapped there for a long time, with the snowball growing.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Mio caro, in questa banale faccenda ho nuovamente verificato che a questo mondo l'incomprensione e la pigrizia causano più errori dell'astuzia e della malvagità. O perlomeno, queste ultime sono di certo più rare.

Los malentendidos y la pereza quizá causan más extravíos en este mundo que la astucia y la perversidad. Al menos, estas dos últimas cosas ciertamente que son más raras

Avevo il cuore gonfio... Ci separammo senza esserci capiti. Del resto è difficile capirsi a questo mondo.

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

Sí; yo no soy otra cosa que un viajero, un peregrino en el mundo. ¿Y tú? ¿Eres algo más?

Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds.

Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do.

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

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

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.