Two Worlds Quotes

• There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Spiritual, Heart

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.9

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• We'll build a bridge of love between two worlds.

  Pocahontas

  Love Is, Bridges, Two

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

  Henri Matisse

  Wall, Two, Doe

  Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

  Emily Giffin

  Two, Decision, Balance

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.330, Macmillan

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• My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

  Rumi

  Two, Soul, World

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

  Sivananda

  Men, Bridges, Two

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Looks, Photographer, Nurture

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• Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

  William C. Dement

  Dream, Real, Opportunity

  William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”

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• Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

  David Lynch

  Past, Fire, Two

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• I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

  Rumi

  Two, World, Duality

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• You can’t have two worlds in your hands
  and choose emptiness.

  Mary Szybist

  Hands, Two, World

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

  Ron Kauk

  Other Worlds, Two, Sacred

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• Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

  Morris West

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Reality, Two, World

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• My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Communication, Two, People

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• I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

  Patti Smith

  Wall, Thinking, Two

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Eye, Two, White

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• Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Lying, Communication, Science

  Heinrich Hertz (1896). “Miscellaneous Papers”

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• One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

  Laini Taylor

  Rip, Sky, Two

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• There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Jobs, War

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• Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.

  Valerie Sayers

  Imagination, Tides, Mystery

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• 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

  Mean, Two, Doe

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