A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
If the youth can't make a living through creative work, they will do something else and the artistic world will be dealt a blow.
There is another world, other than the one we choose to live in
Winter solitude in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we' ll have war.
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.”
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Music can not change the world, but it can unite us for a while.
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.
I am a citizen of the world.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
I am not an Athenian, Ia am not a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
I don't know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
There is another world, and it is in this one.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world’s sky.”
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
Better workers on Earth than king in Hades (underworld)
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
In this world, we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
There is no average between Old and New. The world is either old or new.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Everything is done in the world is done by hope.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would end, I would still plant my apple tree.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
You may only be a person in this world, but for someone you're the world.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
Art is not a mirror which reflects the world, but a hammer with which we give it shape.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The remedy (or psychotherapy) against sadness caused by the world's misery is to do something about it.
Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit
“Imagination governs the world.”
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
one needs to add value, be productive, and contribute to the general pot of well-being in the world
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
“The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.”
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening”
My poems tend to be more a part of Third World studies than literature studies.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The solution to all the world's ills lies in the union of all faiths which will come about through religious unity
All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
If you want to shake the world, shake yourself first.
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
We live in the world when we love it.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.