Worlds Quotes

The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the Pessimist fears it is true. (Robert Oppenheimer)
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. View quote
F. H. Bradley
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. View quote
James Branch Cabell
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. View quote
Colette
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. View quote
Václav Havel
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. View quote
Carl Sagan
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. View quote
Albertus Magnus
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. View quote
Voltaire
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer (shatterer) of worlds. (Robert Oppenheimer)
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. View quote
George W. Bush
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end. View quote
John Dryden
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. View quote
Johnny Depp
There are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . . View quote
H. L. Mencken
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure. (William Wordsworth)
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. View quote
Lord Byron
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? View quote
Lord Byron
There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination. View quote
Leigh Hunt
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo