"The world's a bubble—and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched, and from the womb So to the tomb. Nurst from the cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns in water, and but writes in dust."

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours."

"When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."

"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."

"I have my beauty,—you your Art— Nay, do not start: One world was not enough for two Like me and you."

"Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum, Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen."

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"What is this world? A net to snare the soule."

"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world."

"If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace—that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government—for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable—in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end?… It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history."

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

"People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how it’s a gift."

"Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing."

"Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes."

"Do we have all the hatred and all the aversion for the world which Our Lord requires, and which his example must inspire in us?"

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

"Heed not the folk who sing or say In sonnet sad or sermon chill, "Alas, alack, and well-a-day! This round world's but a bitter pill." We too are sad and careful; still We'd rather be alive than not."

"For, if the worlds In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst * * * He would abhorrent turn."

"Anchorite, who didst dwell With all the world for cell!"

"Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist."

"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion."

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the war-drums throbb'd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law."

"So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be."

"A mad world, my masters."

"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

"In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless."

"There was all the world and his wife."

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

"The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched."

"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift."

"We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us. The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves."

"Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world."

"Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!"

"Upon the battle ground of heaven and hell I palsied stand."

"If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise, it is a man of the world."

"I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me."

"This world, where much is to be done and little to be known."

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world."

"The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself."

"οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ φιλία τοῦ κόσμου ἔχθρα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν; ὃς ἐὰν οὖν βουληθῇ φίλος εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ καθίσταται."

"World without end."

"The nations are as a drop of a bucket."

"The belief that the world would end in 2012 was inconsistent with ’s theology, which does not include a doctrine of the end of the world."