Quotes about World

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, I said to my poor prisoner, a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?

All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.

I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.

Ripples in the upside down lake of the void . . . The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down