History Quotes / AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence

->''"I tell you, I wish to have no more to do with the promise, process, or result of Outloading, Instigating, Subliming, Enfolding or any other synonym relating to the activity or state of basically buggering off up one's one or indeed anybody else's fundament."''
-->-- '''[[SapientShip Culture Limited Offensive Unit]] Caconym''', ''Literature/TheHydrogenSonata''

[[AC:{{Anime}} & {{Manga}}]]
->''"[[EpiphanicPrison 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, everyday. 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''', ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''

[[AC:ComicBooks]]

->''"My name is William Gull, [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning and I am dying]]. I am Catch-Me-If-You-Can, and I am Leather Apron. I am Jack the Ripper, [[KarmaHoudini 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, [[RainOfBlood 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''', ''Comicbook/FromHell''

[[AC:{{Film}} -- Live-Action]]

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]

->''"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. [[{{Cyborg}} 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."''

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
->''"We will ascend, to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies. Free of time, and cause and effect. [[ApocalypseHow While creation itself ceases to be]]."''
-->-- '''Rassilon''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The End of Time -- Part 2"

[[AC:Music]]

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 what ever 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.''
-->-- '''{{Music/Tool}}''', "Lateralus"

[[AC: 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. [[TheOmniscient His vision becomes infinite]], [[TheOmnipotent his touch eternal]]. He transcends all boundaries of man or god, and stretches across the Void in immortal ecstasy.
-->-- ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade]] - Infernalism''

[[AC:Video Games]]
->''Eternal. Infinite. Immortal. The man I was knew these words. But only now do I truly understand them. Just as now I understand the full extent of his sacrifice. Through his death, I was created. Through my birth, his thoughts were freed.''
-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' Control ending

->''For reasons we don't understand, our clocks have started blinking [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 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!''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzCjZNTD2g Technology Victory]], ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations II''

->''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.''
-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', '''Lady Deirdre Skye''', "Conversations With Planet", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evs0nFCufNM Ascent to Transcendance]]" Victory

->''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. [[FlatJoy 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,''' ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}: Perpetual Testing Initiative''

[[AC:Web Video]]
->'''Screenwriter:''' 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.
-->-- ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' [[WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings Pitch Meeting]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0s9mUXhHZ8 here]])

[[AC:Western Animation]]
->''Have fun evolving past the need for physical existence!''

->'''Sokka:''' My first girlfriend turned into the moon.
->'''Zuko:''' That's rough, buddy.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "The Boiling Rock Part 1"

->''[[EpiphanicPrison Inside my mind, there is a beautiful cup.]] A very beautiful, clear cup. A tiny drops kept falling into it... drip, drip... Drip. Slowly, but steadily, everyday. 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. ''

->''My name is William Gull, [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning and I am dying]]. I am Catch-Me-If-You-Can, and I am Leather Apron. I am Jack the Ripper, [[KarmaHoudini 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, [[RainOfBlood 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,''' ''Comicbook/FromHell''

->''If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.''
-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode IV: Film/ANewHope''

->''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.''

->''I tell you, I wish to have no more to do with the promise, process, or result of Outloading, Instigating, Subliming, Enfolding or any other synonym relating to the activity or state of basically buggering off up one's one or indeed anybody else's fundament.''

->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. [[{{Cyborg}} 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.

->''We will ascend, to become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies. Free of time, and cause and effect. [[ApocalypseHow While creation itself ceases to be]].''

->'''Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss-I am the [[EvilCounterpart pirate signal]]-let me in.'''
->'''[[CatchPhrase Hiya Chuck]].'''
->'''Pleased to meet you. [[MouthOfSauron I'm the message]]. I'm [[TomTheDarkLord John]]. Nothing fancy. I want to get to know [[BrokenRecord 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. [[WasOnceAMan I used to be too]]. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Now I'm flesh made of dream]]. [[WeCanRuleTogether You can too]], Chuck. You can too.'''
-->-- '''The Black Signal,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-''>For reasons we don't understand, our clocks have started blinking [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 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! ''

->[[EpiphanicPrison Inside my mind, there is a beautiful cup.]] A very beautiful, clear cup. A tiny drops kept falling into it... drip, drip... Drip. Slowly, but steadily, everyday. 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.

->"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!"

->My name is William Gull, [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning and I am dying]]. I am Catch-Me-If-You-Can, and I am Leather Apron. I am Jack the Ripper, [[KarmaHoudini 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, [[RainOfBlood 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.

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

->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.

-->-- [[SapientShip Culture Limited Offensive Unit]] ''Caconym'', ''Literature/TheHydrogenSonata''

->With my feet upon the ground I lose myself\\

We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

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

->For reasons we don't understand, our clocks have started blinking [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 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!

-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', '''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"Conversations With Planet"'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evs0nFCufNM Ascent to Transcendance]]" Victory

->Have fun evolving past the need for physical existence!

->Perhaps we are being offered a choice. Perhaps a species that pursues a genuine understanding of the [[StarfishAliens 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.

->But was [[{{Transhuman}} 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. [[{{Cyborg}} 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'', [[DeityOfHumanOrigin its name could only be God]].

** In ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', evil sorcerers Satanis and Syrene look to become gods by absorbing the powerful energies contained within the Runestone of Merlin. Syrene certainly feels like she is becoming a goddess as leeching off its power.
--->'''Syrene:''' "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!