"This world is strange and incomprehensible, and there are many people who are lost and worried. When you ask who is the oppressor, it turns out that everyone is oppressed.~~ March 8, 2025"

"The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

"This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun."

"Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn."

"Securus judicat orbis terrarum."

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."

"This world's a bubble."

"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

"Dieu est le poète, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pièces qui se jouent sur la terre ont été composées dans le ciel."

"Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. * * * * * * But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray."

"Let the world slide."

"The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square."

"Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world."

"The pomps and vanity of this wicked world."

"He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says—what says he?—Caw."

"'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

"The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric."

"In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost."

"O world as God has made it! All is beauty."

"The innumerable worlds in the cosmos are like the eyes of the net. Each and every world is different, its variety infinite. So too are the Dharma Doors (methods of cultivation) taught by the Buddhas."

"The wide world is all before us— But a world without a friend."

"I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."

"Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails."

"Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!"

"The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world."

"Socrates, quidem, cum rogaretur cujatem se esse diceret, "Mundanum," inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur."

"This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known."

"'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd."

"Such stuff the world is made of."

"For a brief space conceive yourself to be transported to one of the loftiest peaks of some inaccessible mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, and with eyes turned in various directions look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself are removed from earthly contacts—you will at once begin to feel compassion for the world, and with self-recollection and increasing gratitude to God, you will rejoice with all the greater joy that you have escaped it."

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

"Vien dietro a me, e lascia dir le genti."

"The Doctor: It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it ’cause everything looks like it’s standing still… I can feel it: the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go… That’s who I am."

"The idea that defines all humanism is that the world is not a given world, foreign to man, one to which he has to force himself to yield without. It is the world willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality."

"Quel est-il en effet? C'est un verre qui luit, Qu'un souffle peut detruire, et qu'un souffle a produit."

"Come! Behold this world, which is like a decorated royal chariot. Here fools flounder, but the wise have no attachment to it."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world.""

"Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall."

"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."

"Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end."

"The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love and providence, Do act the parts."

"I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men doo play their personage."

"But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft."

"Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage, Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on the sage Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern."

"Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine."

"Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing."

"Map me no maps, sir; my head is a map, a map of the whole world."

"Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong."

"Mais dans ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots."