Otherworldly Quotes

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

The natural world is the lowest element, the scum of creation. What is decisive is the beyond: the divine world, that is eternal.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

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.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

They Open A Door And Enter A World