Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“As someone once said, we’re in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.”

— C. Christopher Smith

“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”

— Thomas Hardy

“He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place to buy…

— Trish Doller

“If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.”

— Allyson Jones

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I was extremely surprised by this comment. He was about to try to convert others and yet he had not even thought of the…

— Peter Boghossian

“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world,…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“Of course, one person can be the world.”

— Ally Condie

“There were so many worlds he'd never even considered – which one would be his?”

— Jade Chang

“But all the if onlys in the world could not change the events of that day, and he had accepted that long ago.”

— Janet Lee Barton

“He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had…

— Alexander McCall Smith