Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

“What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable…

— Douglas Coupland

“Maybe it's better to live in a world you don't understand, because if you understand it, it becomes unbearable.”

— Tiffany Truitt

“Be careful how you interpret the world: it really is like that. ”

— Erich Heller

“I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so,…

— George Eliot

“I don't know, I guess I agree with them. That if everyone would just keep learning about the world around them, they would have…

— Veronica Roth

“If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what…

— Ward Foley

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to…

— Haruki Murakami

“The false world is full of illusions and misery.”

— Bryant McGill