Famous quotes containing the words world, final and/or held:
“As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“In no part of the Seventeenth Century could the French be said to have had a foothold in Canada; they held only by the fur of the wild animals which they were exterminating.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)