11 Quotes About Parallel Universe

While we spend a lot of time talking about how our world is different from the one we’d prefer it to be, we often forget to consider how our different-world selves would see things. In this collection of parallel-universe quotes, you can find a visual comparison of what your alternate self would think of this world.

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.
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Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time. Terry Pratchett
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Things aren't like this, " he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it, " he said. "Make do with what there is. Salman Rushdie
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Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world. Heenashree Khandelwal
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There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice. Kevin Michel
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Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence. Clyde DeSouza
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The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously–one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space. Sol Luckman
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If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. Zane Stumpo
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I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because, ' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold. Sara Douglass
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A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today. Bill Gaede
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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