Top 100 Quotes About Underworld
#1. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Robbie Robertson
#2. Hmm," she said. "'Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice.
Deborah Blake
#3. I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you and nobody even looks at you funny.
Rick Riordan
#4. I didn't share her concern. Damn it. I should have banished you the first time I saw you. I don't have time for this, not with everything else. You should be in the Underworld by now. Kiyo isn't going to kill me.
Richelle Mead
#5. I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
Gena Showalter
#6. A lot of people don't put the numbers together correctly. But Underworld, honestly, the way it came about - the real way it came about - I took a meeting with Dimension, and they were looking to do just a werewolf movie, and I wasn't too interested in doing just a werewolf movie.
Len Wiseman
#7. Life is not always about a past filled with mysteries or a future filled with endless dark possibilities ... it is also about a present filled with timeless distractions.
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#8. There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.
Gena Showalter
#9. You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not!
Deborah Blake
#10. It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld.
Chika Onyenezi
#11. If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.
Lauren Oliver
#12. Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.
Soren Kierkegaard
#13. Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal
humanity. And finally, again ... the sun.
Greg Cox
#14. Just as a snowflake
went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the
pumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,
and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, my
father's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
Katherine Dunn
#15. I didn't want us to abnormal. I didn't want all this chaos and underworld crap ... but that's where we'd come from. The choas was part of us. Part of what we were. And I was afraid if we lost it completely, we might lose part of ourselves ...
Kevin Brooks
#16. Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#17. A freezing cold underground river. A dark cave lit by ghosts. A man too stupid to realize you loved him. This is what you want?"
"All of it. Especially the very stupid man.
Molly Ringle
#18. Nico glanced back at Coach Hedge. The satyr just made a shooing gesture like, Go. Do your Underworld thing.
Rick Riordan
#19. I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
James Ellroy
#20. But God caused knowledge to be given to Adam and those with him, so that the kings of chaos and the underworld might not lord it over them. [
Jesus]
Rodolphe Kasser
#21. Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld. And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.
Rodolphe Kasser
#22. Hazel frowned. "Why that one?"
"You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked.
"Ghost?" Nico asked.
Okay ... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.
Rick Riordan
#23. I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire - where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!
Catherynne M Valente
#24. Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home
Homer
#25. I am about to bring you into the underworld, Persephone. Can you be brave?
Sylvain Reynard
#26. It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
#27. Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah. No need, though. Just try and think of me as a normal guy
-William
Gena Showalter
#29. Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
Megan Whalen Turner
#30. The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.
Brandon Sanderson
#31. Yes, Seth, he took a nap and Perses snuck in the back door and let them out. Then they skipped through the Vale of Mourning, stopped to have a pic-a-nic and then decided to leave the Underworld all slow-like, and all the while Hades was chillin' and doing nothing.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#32. Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls evidently didn't count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.
Cornell Woolrich
#33. Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat)
He's being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We're not really warm and fluffy over here. (Hades)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."
"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.
Amanda Bouchet
#35. Hades, Hera, and Hestia!" Flynn curses, pointing up.
"What in the Underworld is that?"
"A She-Dragon." Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.
Amanda Bouchet
#36. No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it.
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#37. I'll believe that when the Underworld freezes over and Centaurs fly.
Amanda Bouchet
#38. Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead," the woman said. "I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.
Alan Kinross
#39. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
A.H. Septimius
#40. For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
James Patterson
#41. The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).
Tom Robbins
#42. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
Peter Ackroyd
#43. Rob says, just before a piercing screech crashes through the phone and I jerk it away from my ear like I've been slapped. Either that's a banshee coming to take my soul to the underworld, or it's Rob's daughter, Kinzie.
C.M. Stunich
#44. Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!
Melissa De La Cruz
#45. All of this time, I thought you were just some pretty girl from Bellhaven who stole jewels to get her fathe's attentiin. Little did I know that the blond-haired girl was Queen of the Underworld.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. In response to a tactless question he once said to me, 'What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn't resist.
Jacques Yonnet
#47. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
Rick Riordan
#48. You are such a drama llama!" she shouted at her mother.
The redhead blinked. "It's drama queen, dear."
"No, it's llama...
Katie Reus
#49. I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
Jeaniene Frost
#50. It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
Alan Stern
#51. If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.
Charity Parkerson
#52. 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?
Paul Russell
#53. Before you descend into the Underworld, you must go to Santa Monica.
Rick Riordan
#54. Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.
Gena Showalter
#55. Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
- Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors
Marie Lu
#56. Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
Lisa Sanders
#57. The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head.
Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.
Gena Showalter
#58. Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But, there is, unseen by most, an Underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit, a Dark side. The Dark Side is always there, waiting for us to enter, waiting to enter us. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight!
Various
#59. Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
Scott Speedman
#60. Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
Franz Kafka
#61. When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.
C.S. Lewis
#62. What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.
Theo James
#63. If Fairyland-Below is Fairyland's shadow, what is the shadow of Fairyland-Below? What's under the underworld?"
Ell laughed like thunder rolling somewhere far off. "I'm afraid it's underworlds all the way down, my dearest, darling flying ace.
Catherynne M Valente
#64. Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained.
Rick Riordan
#65. Is not Alliance training," he says. "I spend six months in military prison once. Other man in cell, he was boxer. Before military, he fight in underworld ring, for money. He teach me how to punch the color out of a man's hair. I go easy on you because I am guest here.
Marko Kloos
#66. Evil wasn't a force from some horrible underworld. It was the force inside people that allowed them to act in horrible ways.
Dale Mayer
#67. Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga
Eva Pohler
#68. Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness.
But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
Rick Riordan
#69. I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
Aimee Carter
#70. Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
Rick Riordan
#71. Tell me, Choi Yoori ... are your lips as soft as they look?
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#72. What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
Jana Oliver
#73. What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast.
Christopher Moore
#74. It looks like a prisoner of war camp to me." Fiona threw her rucksack down in disgust. "I was expecting a five-star hotel at least.
Cathy MacPhail
#75. What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.
Walter Burkert
#77. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back from the underworld only to realize that the world above is every bit as damned as the one below.
Ransom Riggs
#78. She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.
Josephine Angelini
#79. Called you? he- wait you're Bob? the Bob? Annabeth Chase
Rick Riordan
#80. Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
Margaret Atwood
#81. With no filter, he said, I thought it would have been softer. It was kinda salty ...
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#82. Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.
Al Dubin
#83. DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests that artists may achieve an accommodation with culture that is also act of resistance. (7)
Mark Osteen
#84. Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.
Rick Riordan
#85. You can call me Boss though, seeing as though you're only the assistant.
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#86. I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
... wonderful are the hellish experiences,
Orphic, delicate
Dionysos of the Underworld.
D.H. Lawrence
#87. For a moment, Strider almost forgot how pissed he was with Amun and Haidee as he savored the fact that he'd just cock-blocked the keeper of Death. Almost.
Gena Showalter
#88. Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.
Matthew Pearl
#89. HAZEL WAS AN EXPERT ON WEIRD. She'd seen her mother possessed by an earth goddess. She'd created a giant out of gold. She'd destroyed an island, died, and come back from the Underworld. But getting kidnapped by a field of grass? That was new. She
Rick Riordan
#90. Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?
Gena Showalter
#91. This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."
A chill ran through me. "And you?"
"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them
Aimee Carter
#92. Adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.
Grace Zaring Stone
#93. Apollo. I'm the fucking Lord of the Underworld. Do you honestly think I need to get my jollies by lying to others? I can think of so many better things to do.
Rosanna Leo
#94. Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.
Salman Rushdie
#95. The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
Charles K. Kao
#96. The Klamath tribe of Native Americans who witnessed the eruption believed it was a fierce battle between Llao, the spirit of the underworld, and Skell, the spirit of the sky.
Cheryl Strayed
#97. I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.
Gena Showalter
#98. Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news.
Deborah Blake
#99. Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?
Molly Ringle
#100. Most who enter the Underworld do not leave, and those who do are irrevocably changed by what they experience.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
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