Anthony Burgess Quotes

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.