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Worldly Quotes (page 200)

Oscar Wilde quote: "Any place you love is the world to you."
Any place you love is the world to you. Oscar Wilde
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clearn, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world. A. Whitney Brown
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again. Haruki Murakami
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness. J. M. Coetzee
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. Bertrand Russell
Terry Prachett quote: "But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful..."
But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world? Terry Prachett
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an..."
My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Franz Kafka quote: "Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental..."
Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... Franz Kafka
To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world. Carson McCullers
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world. Mikhail Bakunin
Edward Dahlberg quote: "Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping..."
Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world. Edward Dahlberg
His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what? Steve Martin
Paul Auster quote: "To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's..."
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. Paul Auster
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran

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