"This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable."

"There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents."

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."

"The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy."

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."

"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."

"One hand has surely worked throughout the universe."

"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"

"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear"

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

"My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"I wanted the whole world or nothing."

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

"The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!"

"A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a "choice "to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is."

"… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth."