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Worldly Quotes (page 266)

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I keep such music in my brain. No din this side of death could quell; Glory exhulting over pain, And Beauty, garlanded in hell. My dreaming spirit will not heed. The roar of guns that would destroy. My life that on the gloom can read. Proud-surging melodies of joy. To the world's end I went, and found. Death in his carnival of glare; But in my torment I was crowned, And music dawned above despair Siegfried Sassoon
He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends. Milan Kundera
The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the market of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system. Don DeLillo
George R. R. Martin quote: "They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that..."
They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that changed everything. George R. R. Martin
Mao Zedong quote: "I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella."
I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella. Mao Zedong
Loving you is not a choice, It's who I am. Loving you is not a choice. And not much reason to rejoice, But it gives me purpose. Gives me voice to say to the world: This is why I live. You are why I live. Loving you is why I do. The things I do. Loving you is not in my control. But loving you, I have a goal. For what's left of my life... I would live, And I would die for you. Stephen Sondheim
William Gaddis quote: "mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were..."
...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having. William Gaddis
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
Terry Prachett quote: "There were really only four kind of people in the world: men..."
There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches. Terry Prachett
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder? people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world? or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness. Doug Coupland
Loren Eiseley quote: "It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the..."
It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth’s first midnight. Loren Eiseley
...to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a dad or an ozone layer, even if it included pets that would die and acne and seventh=grade dances and AIDS. Anne Lamott
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. 'I can bear it no longer,' her spirit says. 'That man at lunch—Hilda—the children.' Oh, heavens, her sob! It's the spirit wailing its destiny, the spirit driven hither, thither, lodging on the diminishing... Virginia Woolf
Isabel Allende quote: "She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by..."
She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality. Isabel Allende

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