Best World Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.”

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.”

“And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”

“И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.”

“He said, “Sir, we are in a very bad position! We have lost many soldiers KIA (Killed in Action) and many more are wounded. Sir, today is the twenty third of March, and I suggest that we get the hell out of the entire Hoa Binh area before we all end up as dead men!”

“Fight back, but do not fight them. Fight for a better world.”

“Fight for yourself, and do not feel bad for standing up for what is appropriate for you in this world.”

“Conquer all types of ignorance. Endeavour to have a deep understanding of significant matters about this world and beyond.”

“The world is changing,” I say, my voice the strongest it’s been since I started speaking ten minutes ago. “Every day the world is changing. Sometimes, though, it’s not for the better. Sometimes it seems as if we’re taking two steps back for every one step forward. Some of us are still being told we aren’t good enough because of the color of our skin. Because of our socioeconomic background. Because of how we were raised.” I hesitate, but it’s now or never. “Or because of who we choose to love. I encourage you… no, I beg you to go out there and make the world a better place. Make it something we can look back and be proud of. That we can say at this moment we made the decision to be the catalyst for change, that we rose up past every single prejudice facing us and held our heads high.”

“Beyond that closed door, you can still make a great impact in the world.”

“Let us share love, give hope, render help and offer assistance in whatever way we can to one another, remembering that we all are joint citizens of the earth.”

“O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.”

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”

“Better be a happy insincere than a troubled righteous, who complains about the unjust world all the time.”

“For me,”

“whatever you do”

“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which man is in conflict. Rather man and cosmos exist in reciprocal motion. We are not cast adrift in an alien or meaningless environment. The universe is intimate with us and, as Breton insisted, it is a cryptogram to be deciphered.”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,”

“Here it is:”

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow”

“your smile.”

“This world”

“Your daughter is ugly.”

“To hear never-heard sounds,”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace.”

“So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large.”