This World Quotes

3125 This World quotes by 1787 unique authors

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only… — Henry Ward Beecher
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws… — Henry Ward Beecher
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. — Sir Harry Lauder
You are not in this world. This world is inside you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a… — Alexander Smith
The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be. — Matt Chandler
The church has been planted as a paradise in this world. — Irenaeus of Lyons
Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is… — Isaac Ambrose
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as… — William James
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts. — William Lyon Phelps
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving… — Marcel Proust
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying:… — William Blake
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in… — Brian McKnight
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to… — William Faulkner
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all… — Thomas Carlyle
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. — Washington Irving
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. — Alexander Smith
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on… — Thomas A. Edison

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