Worlds Apart Quotes

• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

  Emmylou Harris

  Singing, Acting, World

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• Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

  Nelson Goodman

  Agreement, Different, World

  Nelson Goodman (1978). “Ways of Worldmaking”, p.17, Hackett Publishing

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• Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Independent, Substance, World

  "Discourse on Metaphysics". Book by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1686.

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• Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Ideas, Creating

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• Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.

  Yehuda Berg

  Blessing, Opposites, Two

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• I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

  Jacques Derrida

  Together Again, World, Latter

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• When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Lying, Heart, World

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• Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

  Josh James

  World, Belief, Sometimes

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• We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, World, Sovereign

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.163, Multnomah

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• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

  Bill Watterson

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Lying, Justice, World

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Skills, Tears, World

  "Hymn" by Czeslaw Milosz, 1935.

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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Religious, Children, Thinking

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• You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Li Po, “Green Mountain”

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• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Saint, World

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

  Guy Debord

  Reality, People, Unity

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Body, Kingdoms

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Loss, Thinking, Looks

  "The Art of Failure" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2000.

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

  Bud Collins

  Two, Boxing, Tennis

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• Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.

  Guy Debord

  Reality, Expression, Forever

  Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Moving, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

  Dallas Willard

  Essentials, Denial, World

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