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Worldly Quotes (page 562)

I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind. Mary Wollstonecraft
John Galsworthy quote: "He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the..."
He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world! John Galsworthy
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over it their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Gray Truth is now her painted toy. William Butler Yeats
Wendell Berry quote: "I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To..."
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard. Wendell Berry
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. Chinua Achebe
Haruki Murakami quote: "I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing..."
I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing that stands for a world of un-Frog. Haruki Murakami
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. Philip Caputo
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is... Aldous Huxley
If truth in hearts that perish. Could move the powers on high, I think the love I bear you. Should make you not to die. Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning, If single thought could save, The world might end to-morrow, You should not see the grave. This long and sure-set liking, This boundless will to please,-Oh, you should live for ever. If there were help in these. But now, since all is idle, To this lost heart be kind, Ere to a town you journey Where friends are ill to find. A. E. Housman
At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds. Barack Obama
C. S. Lewis quote: "In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it."
In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it. C. S. Lewis
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved. B. F. Skinner
Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle. Dan Brown
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-livingBreathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. William Butler Yeats

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