Quotes About Other Worlds

#1. Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.

Vladimir Putin

#2. Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

Frederick Lenz

#3. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything

Boris Pasternak

#4. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.

Rudolf Steiner

#5. The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#6. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Rajneesh

#7. There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#9. 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

#10. So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.

Richard Bach

#11. if you're reading this book, then you're also that child reading by flashlight and dreaming of other worlds. Don't be scared of her, that inner Beauty, or her dreams. Let her out. She's you, and she's me, and she's magic. There's

Meagan Spooner

#12. If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

Frederick Lenz

#14. I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Bertrand Russell

#15. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

Stanislaw Lem

#16. I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

Roger Ebert

#17. Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

Frederick Lenz

#18. There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

H.L. Mencken

#19. It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

Betty Smith

#20. I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

James Cameron

#21. A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Alison Gopnik

#22. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

Blake Butler

#23. My patchwork life: quiet Sunday, coffee on Grace's breath, the unfamiliar landscape of the lumpy new scar on my arm, the dangerous smell of snow in the air. Two different worlds circling each other, getting closer and closer, knotting together in ways I'd never imagined.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Jehane Noujaim

#25. I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

Frederick Lenz

#26. The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or day.

Frederick Lenz

#27. What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Women are not second-class citizens in the kingdom of God, You are 50% of the worlds population, and the mothers of the other 50%. No one can dismiss you lightly.

Gordon Hinckley

#29. It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.
- Shaw's Preface

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.

Seth Shostak

#31. What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

Herbert Hoover

#32. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Matthew Arnold

#33. Books were enough to send him off on a high tangent, knowing he had a way to escape to other worlds.

V.C. Andrews

#34. Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds - working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment - and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.

David Bayles

#35. Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

Christopher Columbus

#36. Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Tom Hodgkinson

#37. When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

Rajneesh

#38. To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul

Mimi Novic

#39. Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

Albert Claude

#40. This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

Frederick Lenz

#41. To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#42. 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.

Deborah Moggach

#43. As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

Frederick Lenz

#44. To construct plausible and moving 'other worlds' you must draw upon the only real 'other world' we know, that of the spirit.

C.S. Lewis

#45. I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal
stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

Sarah Jio

#46. We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Philip Pullman

#47. All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#48. The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

Frederick Lenz

#49. This isn't about simple morality. Not anymore. The world is too big, and there are worlds in worlds. They were always there, in everyone's heads, but now we can see them. We're starting to bleed into each other.

Brandon R. Chinn

#50. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Stanislaw Lem

#51. [Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.

Pete Conrad

#52. You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

Lynne Tillman

#53. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

David Whyte

#54. There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Liya Kebede

#55. When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

Stephen Sondheim

#56. The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

Frederick Lenz

#57. There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

Carolyn Porco

#58. In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.

Carl Sagan

#59. Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. Are you ready to bring back a weapon from another world?

Paul Christensen

#61. Sounds - possibly musical - heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.

H.P. Lovecraft

#62. Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of being you.

Frederick Lenz

#63. How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

Carl Sagan

#64. To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt ... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

Plutarch

#65. Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it ...

Phil Cousineau

#67. There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck.
Variations.

E. Lockheart

#68. All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#69. It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

Rudolf Steiner

#70. I fought for you, I fought for us
I fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,
Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,
Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now gone
So tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.

Tanzy Sayadi

#71. Back during the war, the sides were a lot clearer. Now that we're fighting other humans again as well, things get muddy real fast. Many soldiers who were fantastic against the Covenant have now balked at battling the Front or any of the other dozens of homegrown terrorist groups across our worlds.

Matt Forbeck

#72. Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.

Frederick Lenz

#73. Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.

Mark Haddon

#74. We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.

Stephen King

#75. I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

James Herbert

#76. So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

Philip K. Dick

#77. Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.

Stanislaw Lem

#78. Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?

Frederick Lenz

#79. I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

Joseph Haydn

#80. Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Nathalie Sarraute

#81. Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.

Lang Leav

#82. If one of the five theories describes our univers, who lives in the other four worlds

Edward Witten

#83. I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

Moliere

#84. I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

Anna Meredith

#85. I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

Jason Graves

#86. I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans ... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Norman Mailer

#87. We're not searching for anything except people. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.

Stanislaw Lem

#88. It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

William Mountford

#89. There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.

Digory Kirke

#90. There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Ron Kauk

#91. People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

Genesis Quihuis

#92. The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

Deepak Chopra

#93. If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.

Frederick Lenz

#94. It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

Edward Betts

#95. Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds ... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#96. It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Aimee Mann

#97. Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

A.W. Exley

#98. There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Ruth Reichl

#99. When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Bryan Lee O'Malley