World Quotes

The world seems hazy because my heart is heavy.

The summer clouds: reminded me of the summers of 1940s when the world was naive.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Who were you before the aches of a broken heart? Who were you before the world decided to tear you apart?

We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things. Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

The world is more alive at night; it’s like God isn’t looking.

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.