Quotes
Quotes about World
For we know the world to exist only by our seeing it. You shut eyes in a man's death and in a sense you kill the universe
The power of the poet pulsed blood through his body. The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
It is a terribly false world
There are two things in the world - language and everything that is not language
I believe the wrong God is temporarily ruling the world and that the true God has gone under
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly.
Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you're living in a mad world
The great truth of the world's injustice had been established for me
Fiction deals with the external world, where things are coloured, and the fiction writer has to get the colours right
If we take away plot, character, dialogue, even characters, we shall be left with something that is common to the most traditional and avant-garde novelist - a concern with interpreting, through the imagination, the flux of ordinary life; an attempt to understand, though not with the cold deliberation of the scientist, the nature of the external world and the mind that surveys it
He (James Joyce) is a modern novelist who has equipped our minds with the words and symbols we need in order to understand the contemporary world, and he will still be waiting to help when the fearsome future rolls in
Only the amateur - carpenter or novelist - has all the time in the world; the professional sometimes has to hurry
There is probably no greater happiness in this world than that derived from writing, in a void, for pure pleasure - to see whether places and people, speech and action, can be fixed on paper and then, like a lesser divine creation, rise from that paper and live
We who groan from drink or, showering, sing, believe the first of January can bring regeneration magically about both in our psyches and the world without
The earth's resources are not infinite, a birth's another burden in a hungry world
He gave in wonder to this world a pair of tormented eyeballs
The world, the wide world crying and calling like a cat to be let in, scratching like spaniels
This book, this exterior thing, must take its buffets from a world as indifferent as the sea, knowing and caring nothing of the author, making no allowances
... he sighed, knowing himself to be caught forever between worlds - earth and air, reason and belief, action and contemplation. Alone among all sorts of men, he embraced a poet's martyrdom
A man could never, in this uncertain world, ask for too much
Life is so, often grossly so, so that a playmaker feels himself to be a better contriver than God or Fate or who runs the mad world. The madness is in the brevity of time
He thought that the great white body of the world was set upon by an illness from beyond, gratuitous and incurable
The world is a fearful emptiness. But birds and flowers grant some little consolation
Language itself was perhaps only a ghost of the things of the outer world to which it adhered
The shadow of famine stalks the world and we are caught in its clutches
