Quotes / Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence

Anime & Manga

"Inside my mind, there is a beautiful cup. A very beautiful, clear cup. And tiny drops kept falling into it... drip, drip... Drip. Slowly, but steadily, every day. And today, I felt that the cup had finally become completely full.
And that's because you gave me some of those drops. Rakka... Thank you."

— Kuu, Haibane Renmei

Comic Books

"The power insinuates my body. And it feels so very, very good. I see things, Satanis, things I've never imagined. Worlds and planes... levels within levels... realities so far beyond any ever seen by man. I see myself a goddess over planets not yet born. It is wonderful, Satanis... inspiring... and almost impossible! All that can be is within my very grasp! All ready to be taken. All ready to be plucked!"

— Syrene, Two for the Death of One

"My name is William Gull, and I am dying. I am Catch-Me-If-You-Can, and I am Leather Apron. I am Jack the Ripper, on my way to Heaven. There's a tunnel. There's a movement, out of dark and into brilliance. Light. Ecstasy. The Sun. Where am I now? A knowledge comes to me that I am high above the glittery Aegean and it is no longer 1896. It is instead the year of my achievement. It is 1888. I hover on the brink of form, inchoate and ethereal, filled with a fierce, exultant joy I must manifest. I concentrate my being to a single bloody point. In rapture, I explode, a scarlet cloudburst. Fluids from Buck's Row and Mitre Square and Miller's Court, rich and sublime, they flower against the blue Aegean sky. A pelting thunderhead of murder here. I sign my year of panics with appalling miracle."

— Sir William Gull, From Hell

Film — Live-Action

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

— Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope

Literature

"Perhaps we are being offered a choice. Perhaps a species that pursues a genuine understanding of the starfish can reach that goal only by becoming something other than itself. Perhaps, to truly understand the mystery, we will have to embrace it and become it."

— Elaine, Blind Lake

But was even this the end? A few mystically-inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from matter. The robot body, like the flesh-and-blood one, would be no more than a stepping-stone to something which, long ago, men had called "spirit."
And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.

— 2001: A Space Odyssey

Live-Action TV

"We will ascend, to become creatures of consciousness alone, free of these bodies. Free of time, and cause and effect... while creation itself ceases to be."

— Rassilon, Doctor Who, "The End of Time, Part 2"

Music

With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in
I feel it move across my skin
I'm reaching up and reaching out
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been

— tool, "Lateralus"

I will see you in the next life.

— Radiohead, "Motion Picture Soundtrack"

I have memory and awareness, but I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit, I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus as was told in tales of old
To the city of immortals, marble white and purest gold

— Rush, "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres"

Tabletop Games

In the Codex Licentia, Solomon is transformed into the Demiurge's rival. Freed from his mortal chains, he becomes every shadow, every tear, every whimper in the night and every drop of blood that falls from another's hand. Through Assumption, Solomon becomes Oblivion, entropy, sadness — and completeness. His vision becomes infinite, his touch eternal. He transcends all boundaries of man or god, and stretches across the Void in immortal ecstasy.

— Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade — Infernalism

Video Games

"Eternal. Infinite. Immortal. The man/woman I was knew these words. But only now do I truly understand them. Just as now I understand the full extent of his/her sacrifice. Through his/her death, I was created. Through my birth, his/her thoughts were freed."

— Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3, Control ending

For reasons we don't understand, our clocks have started blinking 42! Upon completing this technology we will have built a device that will turn mankind into a new form of being — a being of pure energy. Hold on tight... here... it... comes!

— Galactic Civilizations II, Technology Victory

"No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning."

— Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, "Ascent to Transcendance" Victory

"Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss — I am the pirate signal — let me in.
Hiya, Chuck.
Pleased to meet you. I'm the message. I'm John. Nothing fancy. I want to get to know you-you-you. Want to talk about dreams and dreamers? Sensory input gives the illusion of consciousness. You are all just dreams made of flesh. I used to be too. Now I'm flesh made of dream. You can too, Chuck. You can too."

— The Black Signal, The Secret World

"Cave Johnson here. Just wanted to let you know that after decades of research and testing, we have finally transformed into beings of pure light. Go team. Not exactly what we were after, of course, but in the ballpark. So, let's keep testing, and maybe someday we'll achieve man's ultimate dream: to evolve into pillars of pure salt. Can't wait. So salty."

— Alt-universe Cave Johnson, Portal 2: Perpetual Testing Initiative

Web Videos

"And then so Jean is gonna kill the main alien but also kinda die but more like transcend her physical form and become a fiery space bird."

— Screenwriter, Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, "Dark Phoenix Pitch Meeting"

Western Animation

"Have fun evolving past the need for physical existence!"

— Phineas, Phineas and Ferb, "Gi-Ants"

Sokka: My first girlfriend turned into the moon.
Zuko: That's rough, buddy.

— Avatar: The Last Airbender, "The Boiling Rock, Part 1"

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