Quotes About Underworld

The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.

Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh?

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.

Ha egyszer megjártad az alvilágot, soha többé nem felejted el a visszavezetÅ' utat.

As king of the underworld, I have more important things to do. Like what, you ask? Well, like coming up with new punishments for evil-doers in the dungeons of Tartaros, for one. And also scouring every inch of this place to make sure that no sons of Zeus—or Poseidon, for that matter (I'm looking at you, Percy Jackson)—sneak into my realm to create yet more havoc.

Oh, also, do not eat any of the luscious pomeganates that grow near my palace, because if you do, you will never return to the land of the living. Why rush things, right?

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Squeezing too hard on people outside the underworld—or "legits"—was a recipe for disaster. Squeeze legits too hard and they run to the police. Montagna didn't seem to understand or care.

Eventually, child, you will come to the land of the dead with no effort, no risk, a safe, calm journey, in the company of your own death, your special, devoted friend, who's been beside you every moment of your life, who knows you better than yourself.

For he seemed to me again like a king,Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,Now due to be crowned again.

Do you know my dog's name? [...] It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.' I blinked. You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog *Spot*?

Think where you are, sir Knight," Nicodemus said, his mouth quirking up into a mocking smile. "The Underworld is a prison for souls. Do you think yours is so great as to escape it?" "I am not great," Michael said quietly. "But God is.

You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?

Persephone!

Ellis could be bringing me to Persephone's underworld and I'd be glad for the change in scenery.

Facilis descensus Averni.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

What is violent about 'Supari' is the thought that the guy who is sitting next to you in college could be already sucked into a world of crime.