The World Quotes
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“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho

“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
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“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”
― The Light That Failed
― The Light That Failed

“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact

“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.”
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“Why do you like jellyfish so much?" I asked.
"I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she said. "But one thing did occur to me when I was really focused on them. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two thirds of the earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see of it with the naked eye is the surface: the skin. We hardly know anything about what's beneath the skin.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she said. "But one thing did occur to me when I was really focused on them. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two thirds of the earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see of it with the naked eye is the surface: the skin. We hardly know anything about what's beneath the skin.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“The world is shaped by two things â€� stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
― Dreams Of The Compass Rose
― Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
― Life Is Worth Living
― Life Is Worth Living

“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”
― Stunned
― Stunned

“There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”
― Everything, Everything
― Everything, Everything

“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”
― The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
― The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”
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“There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.”
― Sydney West
― Sydney West

“The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.”
― Huntress
― Huntress

“The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.”
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“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”
― Lost
― Lost

“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
― The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection

“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
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“The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.”
― Modern Classics Selected Poems Of Stevie Smith
― Modern Classics Selected Poems Of Stevie Smith

“We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.”
― Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
― Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“I want the world to bleed when it brushes up against me.”
― I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again
― I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again
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