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Quotes About Worlds

Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.
~ Richard Rohr
But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.
~ Rick Riordan
Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.
~ Rick Riordan
he thinks the aldermen's job is to make decisions and then enforce them. When your father was mayor he said that aldermen should rule the town by serving it." Ned said impatiently: "That sounds like two ways of looking at the same thing." "It's not, though," said his mother. "It's two different worlds.
~ Ken Follett
In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.
~ Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
~ Paul Bloom
If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.
~ George Pendle
People have always known that there's another place, another where. And some, like me, are able to pierce the veil that separates the worlds, and even on occasion pass through. Some like me… and you.
~ William Meikle
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure: No fears to beat away - no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
~ William Wordsworth
Remember what I said about worlds," Nettie said, "and time. You have said it yourself – I heard it like a whisper on the wind. It is all dreams within dreams. That is the real secret. Time is not made up of one long string, but of layers.
~ David Niall Wilson
And then the Jamaican guy pulls out the sauce. "It be opening doors to other worlds, mon," he days. We made him do it first, saw that he didn't die. It seemed to make him pretty happy and then - Dave, the guy, I know I didn't really see this, but the guy shrunk himself, made himself three feet tall. We all laughed our asses off, then he was back to normal again.' And you still tried that shit?' Are you kidding? How could I not?
~ David Wong
It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!
~ Belle Whittington
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I pass. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.
~ Jean Genet
I believe words contain worlds of words and meanings that are, more often than not, locked beneath the surface. Poetry is what happens when words are opened up, and those worlds within are made visible, and the music behind the words is heard. And songs do that, too, just in a different order.
~ Jeff Tweedy
subtle or bold, The Weird acknowledges that our search for understanding about worlds beyond our own cannot always be found in science or religion and thus becomes an alternative path for exploration of the numinous.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
They explained their concerns and she said, "I feel a kind of isolation that you'll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what's happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn't want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Beautiful Belinta, Belle of the Hub Worlds." Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.
~ Elizabeth Moon
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
~ Algernon H. Blackwood
Mundos regeneradores 16. Entre as estrelas que cintilam na abóbada azulada do firmamento, quantos mundos não haverá como o vosso, destinados pelo Senhor à expiação e à provação! Mas também há entre eles mundos mais miseráveis e melhores, como há mundos transitórios, que podemos chamar de regeneradores. Cada turbilhão planetário, a deslocar-se no espaço em torno de um
~ Allan Kardec
No vemos en la Tierra que las largas noches polares son iluminadas por la electricidad de las auroras boreales? ¿Y es nada imposible que en ciertos mundos la electricidad sea más abundante que en la Tierra, y que desempeñe en ellos funciones generales, cuyos efectos no podemos comprender? Esos mundos pueden, por lo tanto, contener en si mismos los orígenes de calor y de luz necesarios a sus habitantes.
~ Allan Kardec
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
~ Ally Condie
That's because for men and women, everything is different. We walk through entirely different worlds. Open your eyes a bit. What you see might not make you happy, but it will make you more human.
~ Richard Kadrey