Quotes About World

There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it.

There is no such place, Destriant. Even in isolation we were assailed – by our own doubts, by all the flavours of grief and despair. You and the Mortal Sword and the Shield Anvil, you have led us back into the living world – we have come from a place of death, but now we shall take our place among the peoples of this world. It is right that we do so.

Karos has said again and again, justice is a conceit. It does not exist in nature. 'Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.' Unless, came the thought in Janath's voice, the two are one and the same.

Too much of the world defies our efforts to conform to what would please us. To live is to know dissatisfaction and frustration.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "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.

Women's Wear "the terror tabloid of the fashion world.

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

When the world thought of Sarajevo, it was as a place of murder. It isn't clear to him how the world will think of the city now that thousands have been murdered. He suspects that what the world wants most is not to think of it all.

Do such infinitesimally small things exist in the real world? Quantum mechanics has something to say about that.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home. – Dogen Zenji

For those who care deeply about Zen and its place in Japan and the world, the challenge is to help define Zen's role creatively lest the tradition get buried under the avalanche of criticism.

It was not for the entire world that Christ made atonement, for if He had, all the world would be saved.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

When you look at the world as it is, how can you not be racked with grief? But when you look closer, how can you not be overwhelmed with awe?

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

It is our world. I hasten not to judge it for I am a part of it.

A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.

simply because his mind aligned perfectly with the nexus of logic and technology (which it did) but because, he says, "I really wanted to change the world.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

Our lives will be a wealth of expectation and consummation," says one character eagerly, and conspicuous consumption and concupiscent consummation intertwine in a heady celebration of the material world.

The secret to our success is that we live in a world in which knowledge is all around us. It is in the things we make, in our bodies and workspaces, and in other people. We live in a community of knowledge.

We will see that humans specialize in reasoning about how the world works, about causality.

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.