Traveling to other worlds is all that anyone seems be writing about these days. Huh, goodness knows what they find so disappointing about their own world.

God/goodness/Heaven knows
used to emphasize that you do not know sth (强调不知道)谁知道,天晓得
God knows what else they might find.
‘Where are they?’ ‘Goodness knows.’
“他们在哪儿?” “天晓得。”

Most humans could have the entirety of their fleeting lives chronicled in but a few short Lines…Their stories really make for terribly dull reading.

make/make for interesting/dull/depressing reading
If you say that a book or an article makes interesting reading or makes for interesting reading, you mean that it is interesting to read.
The list of drinks, a dozen pages long1, makes fascinating reading.
The report makes for depressing reading.

Raiden shogun

All the world holds dear is but a backdrop of constant motion. I stand before it alone and unchanging.

hold sth dear, to think that something is very important
Household economy was something my mother held very dear.
我母亲非常重视家庭经济。

the world [sing.] a way of life where possessions and physical pleasures are important, rather than spiritual values 尘世;世俗;世事;世情
monks and nuns renouncing the world
弃绝俗世享乐的修士和修女

Footnotes

  1. 后置定语 ↩