New Worlds Quotes

“All right, see you then. Auwaa” — peace, said King Kaskae.”
― J.L. Marrain, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.”
― Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder

“Books open new worlds to me.”
― Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos....

We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. (1970 English translation)”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Was it privilege to love you?
Painted hues of viridescent lives
to those lost seconds when we saw
the world begin again in strides.”
― Phen Weston, Under the Rose

“New worlds await us! Trembling with fear!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Throughout that year I read one book a day including Sundays. I could obtain all the books I wanted from Eileen Odell. I discovered a world of music, of light and immortal things. I trembled with delight when I came upon a brilliant phrase or a novel idea. While the other patients were worrying and complaining, I explored the worlds of great men's living minds.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“So from day to day I read, and reading widened my mental horizon, creating a spiritual kinship with other men who had pondered over the miseries of their countries. Then it came to me that the place did not matter: these sensitive writers reacted to the social dynamics of their time. I, too, reacted to my time. I promised myself that I would read ten thousand books when I got well. I plunged into books, boring through the earth's core, leveling all seas and oceans, swimming in the constellations.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“New worlds are made through ambition and effort, with a measure of risk, sometimes with violence, and often by accident. They can be shaped by the many or by the few (often at the expense of the rest.)”
― Neil Price