Quotes About World

the world of the human soul suddenly seemed so vast as to make even the raging war seen insignificant.

If Fascism should ever be fully assured of it's final triumph, the world will choke in blood.

In the blank wall of the world's indifference there had appeared a tiny snakelike fissure

Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential for greatness.

there is no limit to one's ability—certainly not age—to accomplish in life what one must. Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential of greatness.

And toward the evening of the same day, all the world's teletypes received a communication: Death was a result of natural causes. It wasn't said whose death, but the world surmised.

Y mientras que el ensueño pertenece a todo el mundo, el delirio sólo pertenece a los poetas.

Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.

the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents.

And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so. - Javert

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

Les Miserables is first of all the product of a varied experience of the world, containing the perceptions of an entire life. And this image of reality is also a realistic image. The symbol, as Hugo uses it, does not idealize things; rather, it expresses their spiritual meaning without disguising them.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.

What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, the trouble of the world!

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true.

Oh! oh! he said, with a smile; to all appearance, this is a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put themselves under shelter.

That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in the end have been fatal to civilisation.

Providencia sólo necesitó un poco de lluvia y una nube que cruzó por el cielo a contrapelo de la estación y bastó para que se derrumbase un mundo. La batalla de Waterloo, y esto es lo que le dio a Blücher el tiempo necesario para llegar, no pudo empezar hasta las once y media. ¿Por qué? Porque el suelo estaba mojado. Hubo que esperar a que se endureciese un poco para que pudiera maniobrar la artillería.

I don't know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

Leni sighed. How was Mama's unshakable belief in Dad any different than his fear of Armageddon? Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?

Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.

For the first time, her romantic novels made sense; she realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war.