“How much do we not suffer through the constant failure of society to recognise this simple and fundamental law of art and life; Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”— Dr. Seuss, theodysseyonline.com
“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos”— Charles M. Schulz, Snoopy, amazon.com
“Proud in all you are, showing every scar as your badge of honor. When you can’t take anymore of what they’re living for, set the world on fire.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org
“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth?”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl And curling round the bud that forks her eye.”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“...the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com