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Quotes About Otherworldly

Mrs. Hilbery would have been perfectly well able to sustain herself if the world had been what the world is not. She was beautifully adapted for life in another planet.
~ Virginia Woolf
As children, when we are under the age of five, we tend to believe everything exists. We are open to all possibilities. For whatever reason, children, as well as older people and those who are nearing the time to pass on from this world, seem to be able to see and communicate with spirits or beings from the other side of life. I have
~ Larry Wilson
It's a night out of time and a time out of place.
~ Laura Pedersen
Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, "You have all been most kind.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.
~ Greg Egan
The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been discussing -- in short, something fundamentally and profoundly abstract. And I mention this aspect because it is not at all obvious, indeed scarcely notices by the great majority of us as we go about our daily lives.
~ Guy Murchie
There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
~ James K. Morrow
There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.
~ Susan Isaacs
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
~ Mark Hoppus
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
~ Thomas Ligotti
But though the stars were spread across a great reaching blackness, the streets below were bathed in a stale gray dimness which suggested neither night nor day nor any natural phase between them.
~ Thomas Ligotti
She was so pale she could have been moonlight.
~ Thylias Moss
Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.
~ Orson Scott Card
Fourteen percent of NDEers reported having frightening experiences, devils and monsters and suffocating darkness.
~ Connie Willis
Death has white hounds.
~ Cornelia Funke
But to the last question," Zelig replied, "he probably flew to beyond the Dark Regions, where people don't go and cattle don't stray, where the sky is copper, the earth iron, and where the evil forces live under roofs of petrified toadstools and in tunnels abandoned by moles." Isaac Bashevis Singer, Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus
~ Cornelia Funke
I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay. MALLET.
~ Walter Scott
Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.
~ Charles Nodier
Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a couple of years ago. Not human exactly. Human-ish. Close enough that she looked awesome without her shirt on.
~ Charles Yu
It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.
~ Harvey Havel
A gray day in the spirit world.
~ Leigh Nichols
There's a lot of 'Silent Hill' in the Upside Down, which people have noticed.
~ Ross Duffer
There's nothing set in stone - some people perceive it as Will could be gay, asexual or whatever. Or, like how I see it, he was stuck in the Upside Down, and he was away for so long that all of his friends started growing up while he was in this other world.
~ Noah Schnapp