Alien Quotes

“And Here We Go!”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“The Rose: A meditative practice used in alchemy, the ability to transform chemical structures. Also useful when battling alien vampires!”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“A truly intelligent race is not likely to be unfriendly.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Against the Fall of Night

“I am a human, hence a free spirit!”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“He wondered if they all had been fundamentally damaged by their time in the cult, or whether the association made them irretrievably alien in the ordinary worlds they tried to inhabit.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told of the presence of consciousness and will.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

“Well, what is a monster, anyway? Something you can't identify with no matter how hard you try. Something so far outside your experience.”
― Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea

“This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
― Jimmy Carter

“THE ALMOST-INCORPOREAL VASTNESS PUZZLES, LISTENING AS LEVIATHAN MIGHT PUZZLE OVER THE PROBLEMS OF AN ATOM.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Up the Walls of the World

“Sure, it is possible we’re on the only world to host life in all of cosmic history.

Science has, of course, been arguing about the existence of life on other worlds for centuries. But the explosion in our knowledge about other worlds sheds new light on this question, revealing something remarkable.

The discovery of all those new planets means we can only be unique if the laws of the universe are strongly biased against life and intelligence.

In other words, there are so many planets in the right place for life to form that the burden now falls on the pessimists.

It’s up to the naysayers to demonstrate how, with so many worlds and so many possibilities over the whole of cosmic space and time, we somehow are the first and the only.”
― Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

“But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything about me has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Electromagnetic radiation is an alien technology to humans living in harmony with nature.”
― Steven Magee

“Some people still look for proof of alien or prehuman civilization yet do not realize that they live daily within it.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I would like to say that the following days were filled with awe and excitement, with marvels and wonders, astonishing discoveries. If they were, the marvels went unrecognized.
Mysteries we did find, and they were many. But I learned that something can be too mysterious, too alien - so mysterious or alien as to approach being meaningless:
-two connected rooms crisscrossed by metal rods; we had to laboriously climb through them each time we went in or out of the ship until we found a curving passage that bypassed them. We couldn't even guess at the purpose or function of the rooms or the rods.”
― Richard Paul Russo, Ship of Fools

“There was alien life in the universe, and he was riding on it like a tick on a dog. Eros Station had moved of its own free will and by mechanisms he couldn't begin to imagine. He didn't know how many years it had been since he'd been overwhelmed by awe. He'd forgotten the feeling. He raised his arms to his sides, reaching out as if he could embrace the endless dark vacuum below him.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“A blurred region, in the heart of vastness, far from earth and heaven, with no ground underfoot, no vault of sky overhead, nothing. I am the prisoner of an alien matter and my body is clothed in a dead, formless substance - or rather I have no body, I am that alien matter.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“What an unpredictable and alienlike creature he is. That is indeed my friend, my cat.”
― Brianna Zhong

“An alien is he who makes fun of human emotions”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“an' when angels want to breed, they lay eggs in human guts which grow until they burst through their chests, and the baby angel claws its way out.'

'That's aliens,' Wheedle said.

'You sure?'

'It's your favourite movie.'

'Angels. Aliens. Easy mistake,' Bladder said.”
― T.C. Shelley, The Monster Who Wasn't

“Whenever human turns into an alien of heaven and whenever human turns into a native of hell, I will return as an Avatar to prevail justice on the Earth”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If Wittgenstein is right—if the capacity to employ and discern signs, on the one hand, and the capacity to employ and discern symbols, on the other, are two aspects of a single capacity—then strictly thinking through the thought-experiment of the logical alien should leave us with someone who is not only a logical alien but also more of a phonological alien than, in initially framing such a thought-experiment, one might at first suppose. Moreover, if Wittgenstein is right, there should be limits on how far either one of these two dimensions of what can be alien in the language of another can vary independently of the other—how far the possibility of the discernment of the repetition of utterly alien signs can come into view apart from some discernment of the actuality of their intelligible use as the sensibly apprehensible aspects of meaningful symbols. Philosophical efforts to imagine the possibility of a logical alien often involve a peculiar combination of intimacy and strangeness: they imagine the logical alien as saying things that, on the one hand, we are in one sense able to understand without difficulty (in the sense of phonemically parse, we are supposed to be able to report straight off—verbally repeat—the utterances of the alien), but that, in another sense, we are unable to understand at all (inasmuch as we are supposed to be unable to make sense of how the different things the speaker says hang together as a coherent logical whole). This requires imagining the logical alien as having mastered the phonological space of our language or our having mastered the phonological space of his, while each of us remains an outsider to the logical space of the other. It requires imagining us as standing in the relation of being logically alien to one another without our being in the least phonologically alien to one another. Can we imagine that? Or does our inability to find a logical foothold in the linguistic behavior of the being with a supposedly logical alien form of thought have the con- sequence that we should be equally unable to find a phonological foot-hold in his supposedly linguistic behavior?”
― James Conant, The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics

“The extraterrestrials who are dubbed “aliens” are actually other aspects of ourselves. They are not “alien” at all. They are part of us.”
― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom

“You sound way too human sometimes.”
― Rae Knightly, Ben Archer and the Star Rider

“Lilly wondered, who was he? How had he done this to her? To them? Was he an...alien?

Book1 chapter 1 - Xander Chase and the Unicorn Code”
― Carrie Weston, Xander Chase and the Unicorn Code

“E questo non è neanche lo scenario peggiore” continuò Hassan. “L’altra possibilità è che trovi un modo per mettersi in contatto con altre entità aliene.” Fece una breve pausa drammatica. “Quelle che vanno in cerca di specie evolute per prenderne il controllo.”
― Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, Nave stellare Aurora

“There is no such thing as an 'illegal immigrant'. That term is used by people who lack the intelligence to know that to be an immigrant one must be granted 'immigration' status by filing the proper paper work and being allowed to be in the United States of America. The correct term for people who choose to come to this country without going through the legal process is called 'illegal alien'.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“Alex was scared beyond belief how did this guy know about his home planet or that he absorbed gamma radiation to remain healthy and get his abilities? Alex was tired of talking and he was now getting angry, this guy would not like him angry. The rage still came, and Alex's eyes began to glow.

He could no longer hear Tasha in his head at that instance, and he just wanted this noob to go away. He raised his right hand and pointed his ring at the older man in front of him and that was when he heard the old man mutter something. Alex could not believe what he was hearing.

“To Alexander, my son, you are our brightest star. Always remember the only future you are ever guaranteed is the one you make for yourself. Willpower, Wisdom and intelligence are the keys—Love Dad”

These words echoed in his mind and these words were only known to him, Tasha, Wanda and his father even by Tasha's recollections. Alex's eyes turned back to the blue green beauties that Patrick and Jessica Wayne loved so well. They also welled up with tears. Tasha had lied to him.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“Hyenas 'appear to violate the rules of mammalian biology,' Holekamp tells me. 'Studying the oddballs can teach you about the basics,' she explains. 'They allow us to gain insight into what the rules actually are.' And by showing us an alternative way to sociality and intelligence, they help us better understand our own beloved pets, and perhaps even ourselves.”
― Sy Montgomery, Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

“Inasmuch as the humanist logic of difference is in some sense a universal simulation (one which culminates in the absurdity of a 'right to difference'), it leads directly, for all its benevolence, to that other desperate hallucination of difference known as racism. As differences and the cult of differences continue to grow, another, unprecedented kind of violence, anomalous and inaccessible to critical rationality, grows even faster. Segalen's 'unanticipated gaps' are not simply new differences: what springs up in order to combat the total homogenization of the world is the Alien - monstrous metaphor for the corpse-like, viral Other: the compound form of all the varieties of otherness done to death by our system.
This is a racism which, for lack of any biological underpinning, seizes on the very slightest variations in the order of signs; a racism which quickly takes on a viral and automatic character, and perpetuates itself while revelling in a generalized semiotics. And this racism can never be countered by any humanism of difference, for the simple reason that it is itself the virus of difference.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena