V. S. Naipaul World Quotations

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

The world is always in movement.

I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.