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Quotes About World

Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
~ Frederick Lenz
Draw a breath, a deep breath, now hold it, my friends, hold it long for the world the world drowns.
~ Steven Erikson
The world was full of lies. And people keep telling us we need them, all in the name of peace. But the peace we got was poison.
~ Steven Erikson
And at that instant, Ivis, so brightly painted in triumph, does the world freeze? Does time itself cease, nothing crawling on; not a single moment following in its usual tumble? But what world offers this impossibility? Only the one begat in a mind, and then raised in chains, never to be set free. The fashioning of nostalgia, my friend, imprisons us.
~ Steven Erikson
The world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.
~ Steven Erikson
People spoke of ill luck. Mischance. They spoke of unruly spirits and vengeful gods. And some spoke of the most terrible truth of all – that the world and all life in it was nothing but a blind concatenation of random occurrences. Cause and effect did nothing but map out the absurdity of things, before which even the gods were helpless.
~ Steven Erikson
In my village no one is a stranger - and this is what civilization has turned it's back on. One day, Munug, I will make a world of villages, adn the age of cities will be over. And slavery will be dead, and there shall be no chains - tell your god. Tonight, I am his knight.' - Karsa Orlong.
~ Steven Erikson
The world outside is in flux—your love of ignorance is not worthy of these precipitous times. Attend this field, travelers, or remain lost at your peril.
~ Steven Erikson
Compassion is never enough. Nor is the hunger for vengeance. But, for now, for what awaits us, perhaps they will do. We are the Bonehunters, and sail to another name. Beyond Aren, beyond Raraku and beyond Y'Ghatan, we now cross the world to find the first name that will be truly our own. Shared by none other. We sail to give answer.
~ Steven Erikson
The world was not infinite, and yet a population could aspire to become so; it could (and would) expand well beyond its own limits of sustainability, and would continue to do so until it collapsed.
~ Steven Erikson
Why is it," Mappo asked, "that Master Quell seemed indifferent to unleashing an undead dragon into this world?" "Well, hardly indifferent. He said 'oops!' At least, I think that's what I heard, but perhaps that was but my imagination.
~ Steven Erikson
But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme – in hard
~ Steven Erikson
That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.
~ Steven Erikson
Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.
~ Steven Erikson
Stress lay in the cast of the mind, as far as Brys was concerned. Born of perspective and the hue through which one saw the world, and such things were shaped by both nature and nurture.
~ Steven Erikson
Among his people, it was a long known truth, perhaps the only truth, that Nature fought but one eternal war. One foe. That, further, to understand this was to understand the world. Every world. Nature has but one enemy. And that is imbalance.
~ Steven Erikson
The world delivers its lessons in manners subtle or, if required, cruel and blunt, so that even the thickest of subjects will comprehend. Failing that, they die. For the smart ones, of course, incomprehension is inexcusable.
~ Steven Erikson
Ascendancy was but one of the countless mysteries of the world, a world where uncertainty ruled all—god and mortal alike—and its rules were impenetrable.
~ Steven Erikson
It is the curse of leaders to believe they can truly change the world. A curse that has even afflicted me, it seems.
~ Steven Erikson
That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.
~ Steven Erikson
He did not know why he was thinking about his brother now, as he set ablaze every candle within him to make the world bright and to save all his friends. And before long he no longer sensed anyone else, barring the faint smudges they had become. The captain, the Fist, all the soldiers who were his friends, he let his light unfold to embrace them all, to keep them safe from that frightening, dark magic so eager to rush down upon them.
~ Steven Erikson
Ah, my love. Forgive me.' He set out, boots crunching on the dead. Returned to the world. Draconus.
~ Steven Erikson
Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.
~ Steven Erikson
If gods could truly offer up a simple world, would not every mortal soul fall to its knees?
~ Steven Erikson