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- Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. -- Virginia Woolf
- The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind. -- Ryan Knighton
- I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night. -- H. P. Lovecraft
- The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it. -- Osbert Sitwell
- 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. -- Tom Hiddleston
- The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. -- Alice Hoffman
- She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. -- Joanne Harris
- It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it. -- Anthony Sampson
- The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before. -- Neil Gaiman
- I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. -- Michelle Shocked
- It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. -- Anne Rice
- I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one. -- Rebecca Solnit
- So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down. -- James Weldon Johnson
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop. -- Charles Bukowski
- Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there. -- Haruki Murakami
- The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world. -- Terry Pratchett
- But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here. -- Wendell Berry
- We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. -- Lucy Lawless
- What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking. -- Robert Creeley
- The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology. -- Robert Harris
- Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. -- Thornton Wilder
- Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. -- Irving Stone
- Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever. -- David Amerland
- I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall. -- Victoria Aveyard
- The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. -- Ellen Key
- It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. -- John Oliver
- I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world -- Brian Horrocks
- my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. -- Charles Bukowski
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. -- Diane Arbus
- Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
- San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate -- Gavin Newsom
- San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate. -- Gavin Newsom
- The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. -- John Spencer
- Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge? -- Denise Levertov
- Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. -- Richard Leakey
- Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. -- Jacques Ellul
- It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world. -- Lynn Samuels
- I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. -- Thornton Wilder
- I want to write a song about one man's level of commitment called, "I'd walk to the edge of the world, just to dump your body. -- Jarod Kintz
- I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it. -- Tony Judt
- The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent. -- Andrew Graham-Dixon
- It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival. -- William J. Clinton
- The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time -- Robert Zoellick
- When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view. -- Zoe Leonard
- There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. -- Jennifer Granholm
- What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, Christianminority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! -- Ronald J. Sider
- He danced on the knife's edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn. -- Maggie Stiefvater
- After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom. -- Frances Moore Lappé
- There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology. -- Harvey Mackay
- What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, "Christian" minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation! -- Ronald J. Sider
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