Worlds Quotes
1199 Worlds quotes by 859 unique authors
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While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to…
— James A. Owen
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed…
— Nicholas Sparks
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One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
— Susan Sontag
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Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow…
— Terry Pratchett
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He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a…
— E. M. Forster
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I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall…
— Frank O'Hara
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Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?”…
— Daniil Kharms
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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois…
— Thomas Mann
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Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.
— Laura Whitcomb
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I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever…
— David Thewlis
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe…
— S E Hinton
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One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives…
— Frances Mayes
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
— Jeanette Winterson
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We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up…
— Paulo Coelho
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Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as good as Miss Davenport and…
— Julia Quinn
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The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe…
— John Fowles
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out…
— Unknown Author
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We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge…
— Nancy Pearl
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph…
— Roald Dahl
Who Wrote These Worlds Quotes
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