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Worldly Quotes (page 582)

Neil Gaiman quote: "The world is always ending for someone"
The world is always ending for someone Neil Gaiman
the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory. J. R. R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley quote: "The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you..."
The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room. Aldous Huxley
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "You are the only person who loves me in the world," said..."
You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets. L. M. Montgomery
The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world. Georgia Harkness
Rose Tremain quote: "The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but..."
The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but its still packed tight with it, like water in stone. Rose Tremain
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins"From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings Rudyard Kipling
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes. James F. Cooper
Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at. David Sedaris
Today I will not seek the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near. Emily Bronte
Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out to the beauties of the visible world; and the decaying majesty of Allfriars moved her strangely. Edith Wharton
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition Bruce Lee
Charles M. Schulz quote: "The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!"
The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world! Charles M. Schulz
An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment to which it is genetically programmed to respond or to which it has learned to respond. But a self must be placed in a world. It cannot not be placed. If it chooses by default not to be placed, then its placement is that of not choosing to be placed. Walker Percy

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