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Quotes About Worlds

Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
~ Unknown
within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.
~ Unknown
Looking back on it, I suspect that we were trying to keep the world of our letters apart from the world in which we lived. Perhaps we had become so accustomed to the magic of words on paper that we were afraid a face-to-face meeting might break the spell.
~ Nancy Atherton
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
~ Nick Cave
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed
~ Nick Cave
But when I looked into my aunt's eyes, I saw oceans and deserts. I saw a world not yet created, and worlds that had died long before I was born.
~ Unknown
There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.
~ Unknown
there were two worlds: the world within and the world without. She could exist WITHIN, she could endure, she could dream, and she could fly. The world WITHOUT, where everyone else existed
~ Unknown
We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
~ Novalis
i'm a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu
~ Ntozake Shange
Magic is often a tricky thing. Often it is explainable. People fly through the air in planes and live underwater in submarines. Plants grow within weeks and cities operate and sustain millions of people. A person can talk to practically anyone almost anywhere around the world instantly. People's images are transported by photo in the time it takes to press a button. Dinosaurs seem real, huge apes exist, and other worlds are a movie ticket away.
~ Obert Skye
Life alone is enough. I find it … more exciting and encouraging than I can explain, more important than I can explain. There is life out there. There are living worlds just a few light years away, and the United States is busy drawing back from even our nearby dead worlds, the moon and Mars. I understand why they are, but I wish they weren't.
~ Octavia E. Butler
How should the little creatures, the awakened worlds, reach out to knowledge of the whole cosmos, and of the divine? Instead they must play their own part in the drama, and appreciate their own tragic end with godlike detachment and relish.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Yet most of these worlds were really no worse than our own. Like us, they had reached that stage when the spirit, half awakened from brutishness and very far from maturity, can suffer most desperately and behave most cruelly.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
La mappa dice che vado verso il Nord tra due regioni storiche, la Carelia e la Botnia. Due mondi diversi, parrebbe, ma a destra e sinistra vedo gli stessi laghi e gli stessi nevai
~ Unknown
The trick is to cultivate "double vision" … A sense of metaphor, of translation - of two worlds interpenetrating - must be maintained. But this is also the essential movement of the imagination. We see through the literal world to the shape-shifting Otherworld behind.
~ Unknown
There are many truths and there are many worlds, said the sign solemnly. —Yes, I said, feeling quite humbled. And you were right. I did dream, many dreams, and they were much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of the mind. Yes, I absolutely dreamed.
~ Patti Smith
Il n'y a pas qu'un seul monde. Il y en a plusieurs, et ils existent tous parallèlement les uns aux autres, mondes et antimondes, mondes et mondes fantômes, et chacun d'entre eux est rêvé ou imaginé ou écrit par un habitant d'un autre monde. Chaque monde est la création d'un esprit.
~ Paul Auster
Stories can elicit compassion on a case-by-case basis, but they can also lead us to question our moral principles and our habits of behavior. As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, "Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an explorer, or a historian can turn an unquestioned norm ('That's the way it's done') into an explicit observation ('That's what our tribe happens to do now').
~ Paul Bloom
Influence and belief," continued Trill, "are the underpinnings of all the worlds, all the realities, as you'd say. Except perhaps this one, which has this physics thing, which I agree is a terrible idea, if I may say so.
~ Unknown
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories. I could fall into any world and go without notice,
~ Paula McLain
we live in different worlds, different realities
~ Pete Hautman
To explore strange new worlds ... and assimilate them. To seek out new life forms ... and new civilizations ... and assimilate them. To boldly go where no Borg has gone before ... and assimilate them.
~ Peter David