When the eyes are shut the world certainly does not exist.

During the campaign, America acted as if the world did not exist.

It's easy then to forget that the outside world or future time exist.

Beyond the parking lot, the world didn't exist at all.

"But how did you get back there to meet him, if that world no longer existed?"

"Has anyone ever thought that a larger world might exist outside the levels?"

Your world existed, I remember that, but it was all fire and water then, nothing else.

"It would be as if our world had never existed."

Some politicians believe the world did not exist before they were born.

They seem as if they've always been with us, that the modern world could not have existed without them.