Otherworldliness Quotes

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured - especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.

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.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

Music is another planet.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

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

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.