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World Quotes (page 442)

Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough"
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough Rainer Maria Rilke
Tom Stoppard quote: "Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a..."
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. Tom Stoppard
In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended. Toni Morrison
Terry Prachett quote: "TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD."
TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. Terry Prachett
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I believe that I am mad," said Vertue presently. "The world cannot be as it seems to be. If there is something to go to, it is a bribe, and I cannot go to it: if I can go then there is nothing to go to."Vertue," said John, "give in. For once yield to desire. Have done with your choosing. Want something. C. S. Lewis
I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. Wallace Stegner
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. Cormac McCarthy
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day. Nicholas Sparks
To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country? your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents. Napolean Hill
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together. Soren Kierkegaard
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. Thomas Hardy
Haruki Murakami quote: "You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for..."
You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. Haruki Murakami
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Carl Sagan
Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the panic, and the amount of technology that is saving the life of the two people you love most in the world, when you see how much stainless steel and money it takes to fight off the fact that god wants both those people dead, no one, no one can look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say there's a god, because I'll tell ya, if we were squatting in the woods, the two people I love most would... Penn Jillette

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