The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others. It must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love is purged of the instinct for domination, in which cruelty and envy have been dispelled by happiness and the unfettered development of all the instincts that build up life and fill it with mental delights. Such a world is possible; it waits only for men to wish to create it.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

It's a funny old world-a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.