World Quotes - Page 6

• People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Prayer, People, Would Be

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

  Paula McLain

  Space, Magic, Lasts

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Good Luck

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Lying, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.98, Counterpoint Press

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• History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

  Wendell Berry

  Regret, Community, Forever

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• I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Hurt, Miracle

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

  Libba Bray

  Space, News, Acoustics

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• The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Home, Wings, Ideas

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• Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Tunnels

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”

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• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Gun, Fire, Hands

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.99, Random House

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• We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

  Jewel

  Fighting, Desire, Needs

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• A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Cancer, Taken

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• It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

  Lucy Christopher

  Fading Away, Forgotten, Felt

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Our World, Imagination

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

  Will Durant

  Men, Fire, Light

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Mad, Insane

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

  Rachel Vincent

  Going Away, Safe

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.140, Harlequin

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• The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

  Steven Galloway

  Way, Flesh, Fingers

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Generations, Use

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• It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

  Luke Davies

  Photography, Space, Form

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.101, Penguin

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• If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

  Dorothy Parker

  Dark, What If, Daylight

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, Our Society

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• Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Country, Rain, Ocean

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Into the Dreaming (with bonus material)”, p.92, Delacorte Press

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• In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Country, Party, Race

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more”, p.1666, e-artnow

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• Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there would finally be peace in the world. "Peace in the world," Brigan repeated musingly when Fire told him. "I suppose she's right. That would bring peace to the world. But it's not likely to happen, so I suppose we'll have to keep blundering on and making a mess of it." "Oh," Fire said, "well put. We'll have to pass that on to the governor so he can use it in his speech when they dedicate the new bridge.

  Kristin Cashore

  Rocks, Bridges, Cities

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