World Quotes

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the gap. It was to some extent this gap.[Nous sentons dans un monde, nous pensons, nous nommons dans un autre, nous pouvons entre les deux établir une concordance mais non combler l’intervalle.]

The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied; thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.[En un mot, je possède le monde sans fatigue, et le monde n’a pas la moindre prise sur moi.]

Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.

This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.[Ce monde en lui-même n’est pas raisonnable, c’est tout ce qu’on en peut dire. Mais ce qui est absurde, c’est la confrontation de cet irrationnel et de ce désir éperdu de clarté dont l’appel résonne au plus profond de l’homme.]