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Quotes About Worlds

There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.
~ Umberto Eco
As long as you remain in your private vacuum, you can pretend you are in harmony with the One. But the moment you pick up the clay, electronic or otherwise, you become a demiurge, and he who embarks on the creation of worlds is already tainted with corruption and evil.
~ Umberto Eco
It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.
~ Umberto Eco
It has been said that narrative worlds are always little worlds, because they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things. In this sense narrative worlds are parasitical, because, if the alternative properties are not specified, we take for granted the properties that hold good in the real world.
~ Umberto Eco
Be gracious, Master, and allow The worlds to rest from trouble now;
~ V?lm?ki
My faith is that we must wish to become the total universe with its thousands of millions of worlds,_ and more than the universe or a myriad of universes,- and more even than Space and Time.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.
~ Laini Taylor
One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
~ Laini Taylor
Once upon a time… A journey began, that would stitch all the worlds together with light.
~ Laini Taylor
You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds." "A black job we've done of it," he said.
~ Laini Taylor
Las almas muertas solo sueñan con la muerte —dijo el resucitador al emperador—. Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insginificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos.
~ Laini Taylor
There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.
~ Laini Taylor
It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master or death is.
~ Laini Taylor
Dead souls dream only of death... Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is. Look at you. You are a lord of ashes, a lord of char. You are filthy with your victory.
~ Laini Taylor
Det är bara döda själar som drömmer om döden [...]. Det är livet som växer och uppfyller världar. Antingen är det livet man tillber eller döden (s. 78).
~ Laini Taylor
È la vita che si espande per riempire i mondi. Il tuo padrone può essere la vita, oppure la morte
~ Laini Taylor
Se uita in ochii ei de parca in ei erau lumi intregi , minuni si descoperiri.
~ Laini Taylor
La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.
~ Laini Taylor
Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.
~ Cassandra Clare
Every world contains worlds within it. People wander through all the worlds they can find, searching for their homes.
~ Cassandra Clare
And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'... 'And the wise, who made this world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
~ Catherine Fisher
There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
~ Catherynne M. Valente