best quotations about
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 | If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 20 likes |
 | Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 17 likes |
 | If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 14 likes |
 | The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 12 likes |
 | Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 10 likes |
 | All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It 10 likes |
 | So much universe, and so little time. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 10 likes |
 | Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. — Anonymous (attributed to various authors but the origin of this saying is unknown) 9 likes |
 | The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
| The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
| When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 9 likes |
 | God doesn't play dice with the world. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 8 likes |
 | It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 8 likes |
 | The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 8 likes |
 | If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 7 likes |
 | You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 7 likes |
 | The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 7 likes |
| I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 7 likes |
 | If there was nothing wrong in the world, there wouldn't be anything for us to do. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 6 likes |
 | The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 6 likes |
 | The universe is an intelligence test. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 5 likes |
 | Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 5 likes |
 | If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 5 likes |
| The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 5 likes |
 | The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 5 likes |
 | If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 5 likes |
 | It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 5 likes |
 | The world is my idea. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | A writer is a world trapped in a person. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
| Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 4 likes |
 | Why change the world? Change worlds! — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 4 likes |
 | The world is the totality of facts, not things. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes |
 | The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 3 likes |
| For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours? — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
| Why, then the world 's mine oyster. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Merry Wives of Windsor 3 likes |
 | Night is a world lit by itself. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
| The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
| I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Why, when God’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | This is the best of all possible worlds. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
 | There is another world, but it is in this one. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 3 likes |
 | It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. — Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher 1 likes |
 | There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
| The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 1 likes |
 | The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible–and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
 | The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
| Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 1 likes |
| The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
| What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
 | There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. — Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer 1 likes |
 | The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
| We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
| Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 1 likes |
 | It's a good thing the world isn't going well. It would be unbearable to be doing badly in a world that was going well! — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Hard work conquers all. Labor omnia vincit. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 103 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 10 likes |
 | Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 7 likes |
| The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 5 likes |
| The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 5 likes |
| Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
| The astronomers must have been very clever to have found out the names of all the stars. — Anonymous (from the book “The Physics Teacher”, Volume 8, 1970) 9 likes |
| It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. — Anonymous 8 likes |
 | Can we actually know the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 7 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | World is decay, life is perception. Ο κόσμος αλλοίωσις, ο βίος υπόληψις. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher (quoted by Marcus Aurelius in “Τα εις εαυτόν”) 82 likes |
 | One word brings another. Εκ λόγου άλλος εκβαίνει λόγος. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Trojan Women 62 likes |
 | The world is wonderful, because it is a creation of God. Κάλλιστον κόσμος, ποίημα γαρ θεού. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 52 likes |
 | This world, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire. Κόσμον τονδε, τον αυτόν απάντων, ούτε τις θεών ούτε ανθρώπων εποίησεν, αλλ' ην αεί και έστιν και έστε πύρ αείζωον. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 48 likes |
 | When asked if the shape of the world is a sphere, Socrates replied: “I didn’t bend so much.” Ερωτηθείς ει σφαιροειδής εστιν ο κόσμος, έφη: «ουχ υπερέκυψα». — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 39 likes |
| Space is the greatest thing, as it contains all things. Μέγιστον τόπος. Άπαντα γαρ χωρεί. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 22 likes |
| There are countless worlds both born and perishable. Απείρους τε είναι κόσμους και γενητούς και φθαρτούς. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 20 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Live in Your World, Play in Ours. — Slogan of Sony PlayStation 9 likes |
 | Nicolaus Copernicus of Toruń, who moved the Earth, held the Sun and the heavens. — Inscription on the monument of Copernicus in his hometown Toruń, Poland 3 likes |
