Quotes About Otherworldly

The dead wander the lanes of the next life like strangers lost in Venice.

In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.

They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, might mock it, but I am up here and they are not.

She was beautiful on land, but here she looks elemental, terrifying in her beauty.

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I've seen a few.

He said it aloud, in a great ringing voice. Yuth-Kaathak ngom'm! Ygar naa Ithorthak! Sh'ayaa Ubb nagarr'nya Ib! Ib-nya gryalak!

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

Religion refers to concepts, rituals, experiences, and institutions that humans construct based upon their belief in the supernatural, otherworldly, or spiritual. For

What was on the other side? Donna said, He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it. He... never went through it? That's why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn't see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.

It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

There's really no way to plan how to play an alien.

Regarde ce lit c'est le bord de l'autre monde dit la putain saoule

Only one true friend have I, but not of this world is He.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.