Underworld Quotes

• It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  People, World

  "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Stones

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

  James Ellroy

  Criminals, Stuff, Knows

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• Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

  Scott Speedman

  Vancouver, Months, Wells

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Criminals, Elements, China

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

  James Patterson

  New York, Book, Ghouls

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• The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

  James Patterson

  Teenager, Book, Ghouls

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• Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

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• I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sheep, Often Is, Blood

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• You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Giving, Pieces

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

  Chad Stahelski

  Important, Citizens, Facts

  Source: screenrant.com

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• People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

  Sean Hannity

  Dream, Country, New York

  Sean Hannity (2002). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”, p.8, Dubois Publishing

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• adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

  Grace Zaring Stone

  Tears, Vices, Wonder

  Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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• Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will walk through his life alone and abandoned – ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one. No one else ever will. (Oracle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Dark, Journey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirty, Civilization

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8707, Delphi Classics

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• I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Rotten, Wonderful

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

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• Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Sleep, Mind

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.593, Schocken

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• There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

  Marion Barry

  Guy, Code, Unwritten

  Washington Express, January 4, 2006.

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.

  Rick Riordan

  Los Angeles, Entrances

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• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Memorable, Vampire, Monsters

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• What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

  Theo James

  Creating, Messages, Genre

  "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Benefits

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• It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Animal, Self

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