Quotes About World

For the world is but a woman with all her mystery and loveliness; and though we may attend her as if we were physician, scientist, business partner, love will go quicker to reality than these and find the inner being of the world.

But Springlike preludes suggest a happy world where the young are philosophers and the old gracefully get out of their way.

While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Either the world is at fault, or we're looking for meaning in the wrong places.

Sadly, crime is the only spur that rouses us. We're fascinated by that "other world" where everything is possible.

Psychiatrists — the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

What is a feeling if not a world in a whole thought?

If the man has genius ... he certainly has neither the constancy nor the patience which sanctifies it, and makes it a thing divine. He endeavors to impose on the world by placing himself on a level which he does nothing to maintain. True talent, pains-taking and honorable talent does not act thus. Men who possess such talent follow their path courageously; they accept its pains and penalties, and don't cover them with tinsel.

For a whole fortnight now, my dear, I have been living the life of society; one evening at the Italiens, another at the Grand Opera, and always a ball afterwards. Ah! society is a witching world.

Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.

Madness that is so nearly allied to genius can know no cure in this world.

Marriage is better known than Barabbas; all the ideas which it calls up have been circulated in our books since the world began, and there is no useful opinion, no absurd scheme, but it finds an author, a printer, a library, and a reader.

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the beyond, making him yearn to be at peace.

Her eyes were too knowing and serene; the expression on her face hinted that she had tasted deeply of the sorrows and joys of this world.

Suddenly, to see that the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness... For the first time, these days, I was touching it with these hands, these eyes. I've been looking at the world half-blind, I thought.

Suddenly, to see that the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness. . . For the first time, these days, I was touching it with these hands, these eyes. I've been looking at the world half-blind, I thought.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.