Top 100 Underworld's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast.
Christopher Moore
#5. What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
Jana Oliver
#6. Tell me, Choi Yoori ... are your lips as soft as they look?
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#7. Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
Rick Riordan
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga
Eva Pohler
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained.
Rick Riordan
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
Scott Speedman
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
Lisa Sanders
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Before you descend into the Underworld, you must go to Santa Monica.
Rick Riordan
#25. 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
#26. So,uh, where am I, exactly ? And what do you plan on doing with me ?"
"You're at Underworld General Hospital. As you can probably guess, we specialize in nonhuman medical care. Our location is secret, so don't ask."
"UGH ? Your hospital is called 'ugh' ? Oh, that's precious.
Larissa Ione
#27. Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#28. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.
Mary Trainor-Brigham
#29. If the Vaults were the heart of Rifthold's underworld, then the glass castle was the soul of Adarlan's empire.
Sarah J. Maas
#30. He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.
Bernard Cornwell
#31. Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do what you want, even if you're Lord of the Underworld.
Trinity Faegen
#32. I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there ... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.
Ellie Goulding
#33. She says I owe her."
"And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?"
"Some people would say it's honorable."
"Some people are stupid.
Gena Showalter
#34. 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber
#35. For decades, museums in America, Europe, and elsewhere had been buying recently looted objects from a criminal underworld of smugglers and fences, in violation of U.S. and foreign law.
Jason Felch
#36. I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he's tremendous, as a man and as a director.
Bill Nighy
#37. You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood"
~Violence(Maddox)
Gena Showalter
#38. Y'all act like I brought the ladies to the party, but they come on they own, cuz. A door open up out the Underworld, there they is. It's y'all's fault they here. All y'all let shit get so fucked up here they was drawn here like hoes to coke.
Christopher Moore
#39. 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
#40. We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
Brian Aldiss
#41. THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He'd never ripped a man's throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She'd made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.
Gena Showalter
#42. Do you know my dog's name?
[ ... ]
"It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'"
I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And ... you named your dog *Spot*?
Jim Butcher
#43. Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. Now, Sabin. He didn't mean any harm. He's borderline stupid. You know that.
Gena Showalter
#44. A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
Louise Erdrich
#45. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.
Dan Brown
#46. It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.
Don DeLillo
#47. Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R.D. Laing
#48. Drake, her sexy mate, just lifted a big shoulder. "Bo clearly does not know how to act around his female. Once he figures out how to, they will be mated soon."
"No doubt," Finn murmured.
Katie Reus
#49. There's no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, 'cause the door was verra low.
Terry Pratchett
#50. 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
#51. Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal
humanity. And finally, again ... the sun.
Greg Cox
#52. I am about to bring you into the underworld, Persephone. Can you be brave?
Sylvain Reynard
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
James Ellroy
#59. Nico glanced back at Coach Hedge. The satyr just made a shooing gesture like, Go. Do your Underworld thing.
Rick Riordan
#60. 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
#61. Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
#65. Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.
Soren Kierkegaard
#66. 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
#67. It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld.
Chika Onyenezi
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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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#71. 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
#72. I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
Gena Showalter
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Hmm," she said. "'Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice.
Deborah Blake
#76. Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead," the woman said. "I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.
Alan Kinross
#77. 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
#78. I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
Jeaniene Frost
#79. 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
#80. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
Rick Riordan
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!
Melissa De La Cruz
#84. 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
#85. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
Peter Ackroyd
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
A.H. Septimius
#89. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Robbie Robertson
#90. I'll believe that when the Underworld freezes over and Centaurs fly.
Amanda Bouchet
#91. No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it.
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#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.
Brandon Sanderson
#98. 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
#100. 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
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