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Quotes About Otherworldly

She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone.
~ Mario Puzo
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
~ Anthony Burgess
Apart from the jet-black sky, the photo might have been taken almost anywhere in the polar regions of Earth; there was nothing in the least alien about the sea of wrinkled ice that stretched all the way out to the horizon. Only the five space-suited figures in the foreground proclaimed that the panorama was of another world.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
the twilight zone
~ Arthur C. Clarke
On the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.
~ Shirley Jackson
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world; I was almost halfway past the fence.
~ Shirley Jackson
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spotWhich men call earth.
~ John Milton
sylvan netherworld
~ John Vaillant
The youths all cried out as he disappeared, but a moment later he returned, altered in complexion, changed in figure, and said that a legion of beings clothed in green had seized him and carried him in a circle upwards. 'They showed me strange things of a celestial character and on your cries reaching us they lowered me down to the earth'?
~ Ella Maillart
There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.
~ Ellen Kushner
No se puede estar menos hecho para la tierra que yo. Pertenezco a otro mundo, que es tanto como decir que soy de un submundo.
~ Emil Cioran
You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can tell the stillness in my heart. Peach blossoms drift streamwater away deep in mystery. I live in the other world one that lies beyond the human.
~ Bai Li
There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.
~ Julie Plec
I've spent a lot of time off planet.
~ Christine McCormick Day
It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.
~ David Levithan
Time is fluid here', said the Demon.
~ Neil Gaiman
Bah! Do you know,' the Devil confided, 'not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead than yours - have solved it? Why, there's a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.
~ Arthur Porges
Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.
~ Stephen Baxter
Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.
~ Stephen King
Beyond the reach of human range A drop of hell, a touch of strange . . .
~ Stephen King
There are other worlds than these.
~ Stephen King
Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing.
~ Stephen King
He looks like anybody you see on the street. But when he grins, birds fall dead off telephone lines...the grass yellows up and dies where he spits. He's always outside. He came out of time...He has the name of a thousand demons. Jesus knocked him into a herd of pigs once. His name is Legion. He's afraid of us...He knows magic. He can call the wolves and live in the crows...He's the king of nowhere.
~ Stephen King
King rejects churches that embrace "a completely otherworldly religion which makes a strange, unbiblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular." But
~ Jonathan Rieder