the-world

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
86deb4c	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.	inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes mirror reflections self self-awareness self-discovery self-reflection the-world truth	C. JoyBell C.
786e340	The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.	life the-world	Rudyard Kipling
c7cb44e	"Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving." She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes."	heir-of-fire the-world	Sarah J. Maas
beb87b7	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.	inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world	C. JoyBell C.
aa4d12d	It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.	american-psycho conclusion crime cruel demons epiphany evil gore horror human-beings human-nature humanity humans life living murder murderer murderers psycho psychopath quote serial-killer serial-killers society the-world theory	Bret Easton Ellis
a46cff0	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 the-world	Albert Camus
7968f0d	"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."	sight the-world unknown	Haruki Murakami
46c06ce	Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.	humans the-world	Fulton J. Sheen
ebccc9d	People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.	moving the-world traveling	Jonathan Safran Foer
1260d90	Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange?	amazing heretics-anonymous miraculous strange the-world wonder wonderful	Katie Henry
12d514c	What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.	imagination life personal-joy the-world	Hermann Hesse
d9c28d7	We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.	impossible-things life possible the-world	Ron Rash
9f41ea4	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?	center-of-the-universe children humor jack-the-ripper the-world	Gregory Maguire
21a2c3e	in these shitty plastic days ...	a-new-era a-new-world change changes destruction electronic-revolution fake human-nature life-sucks loss new-age plastic stuck-in-a-rut technology the-good-days-are-gone the-past the-world	Gillian Flynn
760c7cc	You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world	going-crazy insanity the-world truths	Suki Kim
587585c	The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.	iris-murdoch nihilism pessimism suffering the-black-prince the-human-condition the-world worldview	Iris Murdoch
1764b06	How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.	conflict e-m-forster expectations-vs-reality howards-end love the-world truth	E.M. Forster
0213f6b	Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it's just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And without future, time feels like only an accumulation.	modernity the-world time	Valeria Luiselli
b898f2f	The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space.	existence existentialism life space stargazing stars the-milky-way the-world wonder	Mohsin Hamid
6db7bd8	Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page - but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.	secrets the-world	Gregory Maguire

86deb4c

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.

inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes mirror reflections self self-awareness self-discovery self-reflection the-world truth

C. JoyBell C.

786e340

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

life the-world

Rudyard Kipling

c7cb44e

"Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving." She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes."

heir-of-fire the-world

Sarah J. Maas

beb87b7

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.

inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world

C. JoyBell C.

aa4d12d

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

american-psycho conclusion crime cruel demons epiphany evil gore horror human-beings human-nature humanity humans life living murder murderer murderers psycho psychopath quote serial-killer serial-killers society the-world theory

Bret Easton Ellis

a46cff0

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 the-world

Albert Camus

7968f0d

"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."

sight the-world unknown

Haruki Murakami

46c06ce

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

humans the-world

Fulton J. Sheen

ebccc9d

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

moving the-world traveling

Jonathan Safran Foer

1260d90

Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange?

amazing heretics-anonymous miraculous strange the-world wonder wonderful

Katie Henry

12d514c

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

imagination life personal-joy the-world

Hermann Hesse

d9c28d7

We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.

impossible-things life possible the-world

Ron Rash

9f41ea4

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?

center-of-the-universe children humor jack-the-ripper the-world

Gregory Maguire

21a2c3e

in these shitty plastic days ...

a-new-era a-new-world change changes destruction electronic-revolution fake human-nature life-sucks loss new-age plastic stuck-in-a-rut technology the-good-days-are-gone the-past the-world

Gillian Flynn

760c7cc

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

going-crazy insanity the-world truths

Suki Kim

587585c

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

iris-murdoch nihilism pessimism suffering the-black-prince the-human-condition the-world worldview

Iris Murdoch

1764b06

How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.

conflict e-m-forster expectations-vs-reality howards-end love the-world truth

E.M. Forster

0213f6b

Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it's just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And without future, time feels like only an accumulation.

modernity the-world time

Valeria Luiselli

b898f2f

The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space.

existence existentialism life space stargazing stars the-milky-way the-world wonder

Mohsin Hamid

6db7bd8

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page - but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

secrets the-world

Gregory Maguire