T Quotes
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“The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.”
Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
“The world was alive, and singing and calling and whispering and laughing in the sort of way that was impossible not to fall in love with.”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”
“The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.”
Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs were lost, and consumer consumption fell in a corporate death spiral as the aging technoczars were revealed to have feet of clay. Financial institutions underreacted, the government overreacted, and a society living on borrowed time paid for with borrowed dollars failed. Hard times and hunger came to the Western world, which was all the more of a shock because the generation that survived the last financial collapse had virtually died out.”
Source: Way of the Wolf
“The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.”
“The world was as fully surrounded by voices as the air itself.”
Source: Servant of the Bones
“The world was awash in hues of dark blue, interrupted only by shafts of buttery light escaping from the shuttered windows of our dilapidated cottage. It was like striding through a living painting- a fleeting moment of stillness, the blues swiftly shifting to solid darkness.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”
“The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“The world was becoming a very puzzling place for me. I didn’t understand why bad people were allowed to tell good people what to do. What kind of world would allow that to happen?”
Source: Child of Another Kind
“The world was broken over eight hundred years ago, during The Reckoning. Now it is a time of darkness, a time of war, of blood and slaughter. It is a time of fire and dissolution.”
Source: The Bjornlinga Saga #1
“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
“The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.”
“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.”
“The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“The world was, day by day, becoming a more convenient, and unromantic, place.”
Source: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“The world was destroyed by those who grew up without love”
“The world was different at the top of the maple tree, for from far up in its lofty branches I was no longer part of everything that was running pell-mell below me. And I discovered that it was in taking myself out of the world that I finally began the process of understanding my place in the world.”
“The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.”
Source: Mr Perfect
“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.”
Source: Chronic City
“The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“The world was floods above and fire below”
Source: Wicked
“The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.”
“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.”
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.”
Source: The Birds
“The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.”
Source: Ender's Shadow
“The world was full of men who called themselves heroes for crossing boundaries, claiming bodies like prizes. The world still is.”
Source: Aphrodite Made Me Do It
“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
Source: Cujo
“The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.”
Source: The Bookman's Wake
“The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.”
“The world was heating up and changing for the worse.”
Source: Macom Farm
“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)
“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
Source: Verity
“The world was hers for the reading.”
“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The power and the glory
“The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us.”
“The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.”
“The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.”
“The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...”
Source: The Violent Bear It Away
“The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”
“The world was made of mysteries, and I was only another riddle among the millions. I did not answer him, and though he pretended frustration, I began to see that it pleased him in some strange way. A door that did not open at his knock was a novelty in its own right, and a kind of relief as well. All the world confessed to him. He confessed to me.”
Source: Circe
“The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.”
“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.”
Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
“The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.”
“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
“The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.”