Another world quotes

I looked at him through swollen eyes. The light glowed around him and he looked like he was floating. He was a glowing creature from another world, opening his gossamer wings and beckoning me. I wanted to tumble into his embrace. We'd be able to fly and I wouldn't mind the sunshine or the sky if he could just hold me forever.
- Heather Anastasiu

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.
And that love could fill the real world with magic.
- Lisa Kleypas

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
- Darren Aronofsky

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
- John Ashcroft

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.
- W H Auden

Does it even give thee pause, that men used to have a soul--
not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth
that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world
then...but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our
souls...we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse
in all ways shall befall us.
Thomas Carlyle
- Mary Ann Shaffer

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
- James Van Der Beek

The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.
- Haruki Murakami

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
- Jane Birkin

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
- Cate Blanchett

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
- Danny Boyle

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man, and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another world.
- George Byron

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
- Robert Caro

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
- Anne Carson

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
- Stephen King

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
- Shane Claiborne

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.
- David Levithan

You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am."
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back."
"Why?"
"There's no one to stop them."
There was silence for a moment.
"There's me," said Tiffany.
- Terry Pratchett

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
- Walt Disney Company

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
- Henry David Thoreau

We are here to make another world.
- W Edwards Deming

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.
- Philip K Dick

there is nothin bad to fear; once you have crossed tha threshold, all is well. Another world , and you do not have to speak
- Franz Kafka

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
- Franz Kafka

...they ate the apple, and knew good and evil, and became 'as gods.' And they still go on eating it. But little children have not eaten anything and are not yet guilty of anything...If they, too, suffer terribly on earth, it is, of course, for their fathers; they are punished for their fathers who ate the apple--but that is reasoning from another world; for the human heart here on earth it is incomprehensible.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.
- Mary Shelley

One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.
- Henry Miller

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.
- Roger Ebert

You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are. But when you been through the Nothing, you won't be real anymore. You'll be unrecognizable. And you will be in another world. In that world, you Fantasticans won't be anything like yourselves. You will bring delusion and madness into the human world.
- Michael Ende

Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.
- Nancy Farmer

I knew then that when we had crested that final tortuos pass in the rocks and dropped down into this valley, we had crossed a threshold into another world, a world with its own sun and moon, and its own separate race of man.
- Jim Fergus

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
- Ralph Fiennes

Can't you imagine? Haven't you told her about the place enough? He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything. Meggie had covered the whole door with quotations. They looked to him now like magic spells written on the white paint in childish hand. Take me to another world! Go on! I know you can do it. My father has shown me how. Odd that your heart didn't simply stop when it hurt so much.
- Cornelia Funke

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.
- Neil Gaiman

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
- George R R Martin

She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she needed in the dance, had tears in her eyes, though she laughed as she watched that slender and graceful little countess, reared in silk and velvet, belonging to another world than hers, who was yet able to understand all that was in Anisya and her father and her mother and her aunt and every Russian soul.
- Leo Tolstoy

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
- Henry Louis Gates

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future.
- Joe Haldeman

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
- Frank Herbert

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
- Alice Hoffman

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
- Alice Hoffman

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
- Laurence Housman

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
- Robert Hughes

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
- Alfred Jarry

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
- Guy Gavriel Kay

There is another world, but it is in this one.
- W B Yeats

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
- Harley King

By their subtle reversal of all images, mirrors seemed to be windows to another world in opposistion to this one, a world where everything appeared familiar but was infact profoundly different
- Dean Koontz

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
- Jerry Kramer

Europe cannot survive another world war.
- Christian Lous Lange

You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.
- Kathryn Lasky

I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year.
- Hugh Laurie

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
- Tim Berners Lee

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C S Lewis

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C S Lewis

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
- C S Lewis

If you find yourself with a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world.
- C S Lewis

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C S Lewis

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
- Thomas Ligotti

I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.
- David Lynch

I could put a book in his hands, but I couldn't take him by the ankles and dip him headfirst in another world. And for some reason, I knew even then that he needed it.
- Rebecca Makkai

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
- Nicolas Malebranche

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
- Marianne Williamson

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.
- Stephenie Meyer

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination
- Stephenie Meyer

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.
- Donald Miller

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And i'll be waiting for you there.
- David Mitchell

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
- Azar Nafisi

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
- John O Donohue

In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?..
- Charles Nodier

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
- Bill Nye

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
- Barney Oliver

Big feature films are another world.
- Jerry Orbach

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
- Robert M Parker Jr

But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.
- John Dos Passos

Each time I see the Upside-Down Man
Standing in the water,
I look at him and start to laugh,
Although I shouldn't oughtter.
For maybe in another world
Another time
Another town,
Maybe HE is right side up
And I am upside down
- Shel Silverstein

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words.
Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.
- Mervyn Peake

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
- Edith Piaf

But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of music had, for a time at least, been born in him, Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadow, unknown, impenetrable to the human mind, but none the less perfectly distinct from one another, unequal among themselves in value and significance.
- Marcel Proust

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
- Philip Pullman

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
- Philip Pullman

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.
- Thomas Pynchon

To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby.... It was just another world.
- Giuliana Rancic

A bus ride is like being in another world.
- J A Redmerski

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.
I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.
The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.
Too close.
I couldn't stay away.
- Maggie Stiefvater

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
- Nora Roberts

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.
- Henry Rollins

You see, Armand, there was a new hunger within me, and on some days I can assure you I felt fairly ravenous. The need to read took over me, a delicious and exhilarating hold. The more I read, the hungrier I became. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.
- Tatiana De Rosnay

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.
- Tatiana De Rosnay

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy

Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there.
Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.
- Shan Sa

For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time.
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.
- Diane Setterfield

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.
- Diane Setterfield

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
- Jane Seymour

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
- Ted Shackelford

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
- Jeanette Winterson

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.
- Kyung Sook Shin

A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.
- Paullina Simons

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
- Bryan Singer

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.
- Steven Squyres

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste.
- Chris Stocking

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago
He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets.
- Dejan Stojanovic

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be
- Andrei Tarkovsky

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
- Catherynne M Valente

I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master plan? That makes him sound about as dangerous as Yogi Bear."
Tod shrugged. "Yeah. If Yogi were a soul-sucking, body-stealing, boyfriend-snatching, damned-soul-torturing evil demon from another world. Besides, what else could he be planning?
- Rachel Vincent

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
- Margaret Walker