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Quotes About World

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
~ Andre Gide
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.
~ John O'Keeffe
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
~ Sophocles
For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.
~ William Shakespeare
O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.
~ William Shakespeare
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
~ William Shakespeare
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
~ Christian Morgenstern
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
~ Cicero
Such stuff the world is made of.
~ William Cowper
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
~ Dante Alighieri
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.
~ Charles C. Leland
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
~ Laurence Sterne
There was all the world and his wife.
~ Jonathan Swift
A mad world, my masters.
~ John Taylor
My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
~ Joyce Carey
To some if you owned your own mind you were indeed sickout when you possessed and Antagonist mind you were healthy. A mind which sought to interpret the world by using a single loa. Somewhat like filling a milk bottle with an ocean.
~ Ishmael Reed
Entiendes lo que te quiero decir? Si el globo terrestre desapareciera un día, si, por ejemplo, la Tierra se estrellase contra un cometa, se despedazara y se volatilizase o simplemente se precipitara en el abismo, si por tanto nuestro globo desapareciera sin dejar otro rastro que este sótano repleto de cartapacios, este sótano bastaría para comprender lo que había sido este mundo.
~ Ismail Kadare
I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.
~ Ivan Doig
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
~ Ivan Doig
Sve su Drine ovog svijeta krive; nikada se one ne?e mo?i sve ni potpuno ispraviti; nikada ne smijemo prestati da ih ispravljamo.
~ Ivo Andri?