Top 100 World Is Nothing Quotes
#1. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
#2. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
Byron Katie
#4. This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
Harlan Coben
#5. Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#6. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.
David Bentley
#7. My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.
George Benson
#9. The world is nothing but a moment.
Rumi
#10. The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
Karl Marx
#11. Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
Andrew Davidson
#12. To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
Rajneesh
#13. The world is nothing but a school of love;
our relationships with our husband or wife,
with our children and parents,
with our friends and relatives
are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.
Swami Muktananda
#14. The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
Heraclitus
#15. In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful.
Stephen King
#16. And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#17. All the honey in the world is nothing without the confirmation of the bees.
Jarvis Price
#18. The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites
Rumi
#19. This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Even if this world is nothing but a story, even if we exist only to entertain someone far beyond our reach, I don't think this world is ridiculous!
Jun Mochizuki
#21. Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.
John Davidson
#22. The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.
Osho
#23. Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But this can never match Reality, simply because the world isn't frozen. Nevertheless we carry on as though the way we've frozen it in our minds is the way it actually is.
Steve Hagen
#24. Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
Van Morrison
#26. Our world is nothing but a mistery. You never know what happens the next second...
Mykyta Isagulov
#27. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
Teju Cole
#28. If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
Nayyirah Waheed
#29. Not worthy! Why, the whole world is nothing to me compared with her.
Oscar Wilde
#30. No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
Gustave Moreau
#31. This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
#32. To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Teresa Of Avila
#33. Your world is nothing but a reflection of your mind and all of its contents.
Debasish Mridha
#34. To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.
Aileen Wuornos
#36. [A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. ... [T]his can never match Reality, ... because the world isn't frozen.
Steve Hagen
#37. This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
Jack Abbott
#38. I don't get it. This world is nothing but stuff I don't get.
Reki Kawahara
#39. We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. Every human being is bound to taste death: and you shall receive your rewards in full on the Day of Resurrection. He who is kept away from the Fire and is admitted to Paradise, will surely triumph; for the life of this world is nothing but an illusory enjoyment.
Anonymous
#42. The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.
What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life
Neale Donald Walsch
#43. We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II,
Rand Paul
#44. The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
Scott Ritter
#45. If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
Russell Simmons
#46. The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.
G.H. Hardy
#47. I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
Matt Squire
#48. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#49. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Bryan Stevenson
#50. Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half
Neil Peart
#51. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
Jonny Wilkinson
#52. Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190]
Ellen G. White
#53. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck
#54. The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.
Lia Mills
#55. Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe
#56. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.
Marilynne Robinson
#57. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. I think we should all earn our place in the world. [ ... ] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.
Rachel Vincent
#59. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#60. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.
Kelly McBride
#61. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
James Weldon Johnson
#62. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.
James K. Glassman
#63. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.
Hilary Mantel
#65. You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.
Karen Marie Moning
#66. On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky
#67. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr
Christopher Paolini
#68. What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
John Ashcroft
#69. We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
Anne Rice
#71. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Anna Kendrick
#72. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#73. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
David W. Earle
#74. There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.
David Maraniss
#75. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#76. I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
Chris Bohjalian
#77. To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
Mark Twain
#78. Say what you want about healthcare in America, but where else in the world can you get free antibiotics by just drinking the milk or eating the chicken
Buddy Winston
#79. What was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.
C.S. Lewis
#80. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory Maguire
#82. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.
Deepa Mehta
#83. The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
Gore Vidal
#84. 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
#85. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
Anthony Trollope
#86. Could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. It
Virginia Woolf
#87. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
Becky G
#88. Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
#89. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
Shane Claiborne
#90. I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#91. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.
Marian McPartland
#92. I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.
Jon Stewart
#93. But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses
Muriel Barbery
#94. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.
Dean Koontz
#95. It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.
Charles Dickens
#96. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
Isaac Jogues
#97. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
John Steinbeck
#98. What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!
Haruki Murakami
#99. A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen
#100. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.
Carl Becker
