Sophie's World Quotes

#1. I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. All the magic in the world can't simplify affairs of the heart. (Sophie's dad)

Rachel Hawkins

#3. There comes a point in most cases - and by no means only those in which Hercule Poirot has involved himself - when one starts to feel that it would be a greater comfort, and actually no less effective, to talk only to oneself and dispense with all attempts to communicate with the outside world.

Sophie Hannah

#4. I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Sophie Marceau

#5. When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.
(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

Sophie Kinsella

#6. Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Jostein Gaarder

#7. Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.
Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with
Good, Evil with Evil ...
Both of their wishes granted.

Soman Chainani

#8. It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#10. It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.

Eva Green

#11. Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus - woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

Molly Ringle

#12. I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#13. We're just looking and looking at each other. And I can feel something new between us, something even more intimate than anything we've done. Eye to eye. It's the most powerful connection in the world.

Sophie Kinsella

#14. Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#15. There was nothing in her world except waiting to be allowed to breathe, then breathing until he decided it was time for her to stop breathing again.

Sophie Kisker

#16. Suze us my oldest, dearest friend, and being with her used to feel like the easiest thing in the world. But now it feels like I'm in a stage play and I've forgotten my lines and she's not about to help me out.

Sophie Kinsella

#17. None but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

Sophie Von La Roche

#18. So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I'll be able to live in it. Really, it's an investment.

Sophie Kinsella

#19. If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.

Sophie Hannah

#20. My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

Sophie Ristelhueber

#21. I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world, often one they don't otherwise know about. And usually there's a funny bit in there somewhere.

Sophie Weston

#22. No matter how many times the elves explained the "illumination in a darkened world" analogy, she would never stop thinking it was weird to have a school named after glowing fungus.

Shannon Messenger

#23. It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

Hans Arp

#24. Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

Jostein Gaarder

#25. I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.

Sophie Blackall

#26. She was ... is beautiful. Like her mother. Like you." He touched me then, pressing one finger directly over my heart. "You have it in here." He coughed violently, his hand dropping away from me. "It's a beauty that nothing can take away. Not this world or its monsters.

Sophie Jordan

#27. In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

Sophie Swetchine

#28. The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Sophie Swetchine

#29. That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

Sophie Kinsella

#30. Prepare yourself, Price, 'cause I'm about to rock your world.

Fisher Amelie

#31. In the garden everything was wonderfully clear and still. The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing. The morning dew twinkled in the grass like drops of crystal. Once again she was struck by the incredible wonder of the world.

Jostein Gaarder

#32. The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

Sophie Dahl

#33. She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

Kristin Hannah

#34. You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#35. Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world ...

Sophie Kinsella

#36. According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'.

Jostein Gaarder

#37. With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

Sophie Hunger

#38. When your world falls apart and everything's ruined, you lose part of yourself. Not all, inconveniently. One half, the best half, dies. The other half lives.

Sophie Hannah

#39. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.

Sophie Jordan

#40. I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

Sophie Winkleman

#41. I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

Sophie Hannah

#42. But it is possible that a completely different author is somewhere writing a book about a UN Major Albert Knag, who is writing a book for his daughter Hilde. This book is about a certain Alberto Knox who suddenly begins to send humble philosophical lectures to Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close.

Jostein Gaarder

#43. Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Sophie Swetchine

#44. You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

Sophie Turner

#45. We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

Sophie Swetchine

#46. In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Sophie Swetchine

#47. Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.

Sophie Kinsella

#48. Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

Jostein Gaarder

#49. Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

Sophie Hannah

#50. To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

Sophie Divry

#51. Sophie saw that the philosopher was right. Grownups took the world for granted. They had let themselves be lulled into the enchanted sleep of their humdrum existence once and for all. 'You've just grown so used to the world that nothing surprises you any more.

Jostein Gaarder

#52. He softly kissed her lips. I'm going to rock your world tonight, and then I'm going to do it again. Only different. You're going to come undone, Sophie, every which way you can, and i won't stop until you do.

Robin Bielman

#53. Exactly what he wanted me to do. Exactly what they all thought I would do. Everyone in here. Everyone out there in the world. A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.

Sophie Jordan

#54. The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

Sophie Swetchine

#55. The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

Sophie Scholl

#56. I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#57. The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Sophie Swetchine

#58. Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

Sophie Kinsella

#59. My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#60. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Sophie Kinsella

#61. I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Sophie Kinsella

#62. London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

Sophie Kinsella

#63. Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

Madeleine Sophie Barat

#64. The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then.

Sophie Jordan

#65. I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor