We Are So Small In This World Quotes

#1. It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

David Mitchell

#2. I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

Maira Kalman

#3. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.

Henning Mankell

#4. God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#5. My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Tyler Hilton

#6. Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that.

Ben Marcus

#7. One small thing
I've learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world.

David Whyte

#8. Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it's the heartland of America. It's a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it's beginning to pass.

Robert Dallek

#9. She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

Susan Cooper

#10. In the sunny world, with its small things moving too fast, I shy away from light and in the attic cuss the dark.

Andre Alexis

#11. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

Nhat Hanh

#12. I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

Ellen DeGeneres

#13. You can't change people. You know that. You can't make them stop hating each other, or longing to blow up the world, not by walking through the rain and singing to a small guitar. Most you can do for them is pull them out of the womb, thump them on the backside and let them get on with it.

John Mortimer

#14. Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world - the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large - the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back

Richard Flanagan

#15. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

Ruskin Bond

#16. It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.

John Calvin

#17. Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn't big enough.

Terry Pratchett

#18. My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

#19. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#20. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. E. Cummings

#21. For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

Joseph Conrad

#22. The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways

Ernest Becker

#23. My world has always been so small, hidden behind walls.

Patrick Carman

#24. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman

#25. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Isabel Allende

#26. The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true.

Sebastian Barry

#27. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

Bruce Coville

#28. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

Jennifer Donnelly

#29. The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

Peter Morgan

#30. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#31. Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Amit Ray

#32. He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

Michael Koryta

#33. Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#34. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen