“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.”
“Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn t ever last.”
“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”
“A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.”
“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.”
“There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.”
“The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.”
“The world can ask you to participate, but it s a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.”
“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy”
“The world needs more love at first sight.”
“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
“We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven t had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.”
“Świat się zmienia, słońce zachodzi, a wódka się kończy.”
“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover s Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
“whatever you do be gentle with yourself. you don’t just live in this world or your home or your skin. you also live in someone’s eyes.”
“No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one s partiality.”
“I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.”