Wicked World Quotes

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

We think too much and feel too little.

..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.