Top 100 World Outside Quotes
#1. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
James Van Der Beek
#2. She seemed tired and watched the world outside like maybe she was expecting it to speak to her.
Junot Diaz
#3. More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.
Lorna Sage
#4. We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.
Harun Yahya
#5. Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder
#6. I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.
Shannon Hale
#7. I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.
Ryan Holmes
#8. The world outside is mad, but it's also beautiful.
Cameron Jace
#9. We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.
V.S. Naipaul
#10. I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
Amanda Lindhout
#11. As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.
Hugh Downs
#12. In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within a set of polite conventions.
J.G. Ballard
#13. Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.
Jack London
#15. It was at that moment that I knew, regardless of whether we were here or in the world outside of these walls, I couldn't live without him.
Terry Towers
#16. To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.
Neil Gaiman
#17. Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside.
Lynsey Addario
#18. Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.
Alexis Hall
#19. The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.
Annia Ciezadlo
#20. if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful.
Hugh Howey
#21. What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.
Emily Browning
#22. The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and red and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window.
Tahereh Mafi
#24. My 'Inner World' can only tap the GOODNESS in the World outside !
From within I see 'beauty', from within I see 'ugliness', from within I see 'divinity', from within I 'enjoy',from within I feel 'sadness' !
It all starts from ME, goes all around and comes back to ME!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#25. My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.
Katy Perry
#26. In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Shirley Jackson
#27. Let storms rage
In the world outside;
Fires rise from hell
Stay, beloved,
From here to eternity,
Should chaos consume us
Or death annihilate us.
Sreesha Divakaran
#29. I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil.
Tor Udall
#30. Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The
Maureen Egan
#31. I am here now, half alive, but alive. I am no longer waiting for the world outside to let me live, slow and sure, as I finally learn how to breathe alone.
Sarah Ann Walker
#32. I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
Monica Bellucci
#33. He is angry at the world outside this house, and that makes me love him even more.
Jennifer Niven
#34. And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.
Lauren Groff
#35. There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
Bill Condon
#36. What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
Max Beckmann
#37. Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We've lost this knowledge as a culture.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#38. Stormin'," he said, like he was glad to note the world outside continuing on any recognizable course at all, however drastic.
William Gibson
#39. If you can the conquer the world within, you can easily conquer the world outside.
Amit Ray
#40. For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
Robert Sommer
#41. No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.
William Kamkwamba
#42. This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
Leonard Ravenhill
#43. It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.
Arthur Christiansen
#44. Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
John Podhoretz
#45. Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Esther Williams
#46. The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V.S. Naipaul
#47. I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal.
Richard Wright
#48. He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.
Patrick Suskind
#49. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
Eva Hoffman
#50. When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.
Pierre Alechinsky
#51. We lived together like fish in an aquarium, contented because someone threw us food when we needed it, and we could, whenever we wanted to, see the world outside through the glass.
Paulo Coelho
#52. When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
Philip Yancey
#53. Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
Andy Gibb
#54. Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#55. Go get him, tiger, I silently told him. Shouldn't you be working? he asked. Yes, I said frankly. But the world outside these walls is depressing, and I need the distraction. You may begin impressing me now.
Chloe Neill
#56. The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
Katherine Paterson
#57. I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
John Wilmot
#58. When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.
Willie Aames
#59. I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
Rafael Nadal
#60. Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.
Shaun Tan
#61. NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
Henrik Ibsen
#62. The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
Michel Houellebecq
#63. Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#64. He felt as if there were something inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
#66. You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
Alan Moore
#67. Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.
Brian A. Jackson
#68. In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.
Rob Sheffield
#69. We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.
Nhat Hanh
#70. As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
Melissa Auf Der Maur
#71. That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget.
John Green
#72. Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
John Green
#73. I thought for a minute of the world outside my house, and then I didn't have any more thoughts except the thought that I had to hurry up and sleep.
Raymond Carver
#74. I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.
Rula Jebreal
#75. I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
Charlie Kaufman
#76. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.
Hugh Howey
#77. If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#78. Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
Simon Blackburn
#79. Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
Erich Fromm
#80. So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!
Franz Kafka
#81. Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.
David Cameron
#82. town of Angel Haven lies somewhere in the central United States, its landscape blessed long ago by the Star Witches. A vast forest of majestic trees surrounds the town, creating a natural barricade from the world outside. The trees range from evergreen saplings
Justin Chiang
#83. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.
Laurens Van Der Post
#84. When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.
Jed McKenna
#85. The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
Erich Fromm
#86. We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
Ricardo Lagos
#87. I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.
Malorie Blackman
#88. I was working, but I didn't have anything like enough to do, and the bad times came in the evenings, when I went back to my room, sat on the couch and watched the world outside me going on through glass, a light bulb at a time.
Olivia Laing
#89. I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; "it is the sea gone off with the sun" (Rimbaud).
Milan Kundera
#90. To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As
Carlo Rovelli
#91. Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost within himself, searching for the points at which his inner life intersected the life of the greater world outside, and calling those points of intersection songs.
Salman Rushdie
#92. I fear books; for I have heard it said, and I think it true, that a man who
spends long enough in their company grows at last unmindful of the world outside their covers, and lives finally in a twilight world of fantastic things and places as insubstantial as dreams.
Chris Naylor
#93. We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
Marianne Williamson
#94. I didn't expect anything. I just wanted to be near her. The world outside fell away. Melted around us. Then, she kissed me.#Ren
Colleen Houck
#95. I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
Michael Palin
#96. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
Garry Disher
#97. I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.
Jessica Stroup
#98. A third way of attaining union lies in creative activity, be it that of the artist, or of the artisan. In any kind of creative work the creating person unites himself with his material, which represents the world outside
Erich Fromm
#99. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer ... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.
Morris Graves
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