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Quotes About Worlds

SPACE... it's fucking big. These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...
~ Steven Erikson
The things said and the things not said. In the space in between, a thousand worlds.
~ Steven Erikson
The worlds live on, beyond us, countless unravelling tales.
~ Steven Erikson
During the Inquisition, the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the stake for suggesting that God, in His infinite power, created innumerable worlds.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Live in a cosmic ocean, singing sweet hallucinations, dreams of many worlds, all flowing into one.... inner / outer mirrored love.
~ Jay Woodman
De veras no quiere que lo llevemos? —Es una caminata de diez minutos. Y en esta noche maravillosa, caminar es un imperativo. Los tres se quedaron un momento contemplando las estrellas. —Cada una de ellas es un mundo —dijo Hagen, mirándolas. —O un espantoso caos —dijo Clements, con un bostezo—. Temo que sean un cadáver fluorescente y que nosotros estemos dentro.
~ Nabokov Vladimir
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
En mi mundo, las grandes esperanzas solo vivían entre las páginas de un libro.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
dos fugitivos cabalgando a lomos de un libro, dispuestos a escaparse a través de mundos de ficción y sueños de segunda mano.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity
~ César Aira
She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast
~ Thomas Hardy
Music drew an angel down, said the poet: but what is that to drawing down worlds!
~ Thomas Hardy
If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I have look'd on Worlds far distant, their Beauty how pitiless.
~ Thomas Pynchon
But where Ma saw only old books gathering dust and smelling of mildew, I found comfort and possibility. Other worlds were within my grasp—better worlds full of rewarded ambition, refinement, and eloquence. I clung to them as a pilgrim whose faith is proportional to the extremity of their need clings to a relic or a prayer.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
~ Kathy Acker
Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
The failure of Aristotle to distinguish sharply between the worlds of experience and of mathematical thought resulted in his lack of clear recognition of a similar confusion in the paradoxes of Zeno.
~ Carl B. Boyer
This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264
~ Carl Gustv Jung
It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds...at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.
~ Gavin de Becker
all of us who are sealed to the Library are people who have chosen this way of life because we love books. None of us wanted to save worlds. I mean, not that we object to saving worlds..." She shrugged, picking up her teacup again "We want books. We love books. We live with books.
~ Genevieve Cogman