Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.