Quotes About Sorcery

Harry Constantine: It happens to us all. We get a sniff of sorcery and Oh! what plans we make! We'll shake Creation and leave nothing but smiles and wit and a reputation all men envy!

Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.

There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die.

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

You have heard tales of necromancers,' she said, 'who fish for the spirits of the dead. Do you know there are vivimancers among the dead, who call to them those who can make them live again?

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

in describing the "virgin Daughter of Babylon wrote: Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood…Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you." (Isaiah 47:12-13)

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

The obsession with sorcery in Charles's case reflected a rising belief in the occult and demonic. Times of anxiety nourish belief in conspiracies of evil, which in the 14th century were seen as the work of persons or groups with access to diabolical aid.

There is something of both childishness and sorcery in a woman making up. The event keeps the world in suspense by the simple interaction between a mirror and a face. It is the reconciliation of technique and guile. It has no equivalent in the universe of thought except perhaps when suffering is dressed up in ascetic garb. It is, moreover, each day (and several times a day) the sacrificial moment of a woman's life.

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain. And that's why, when you find yourself face to face with one, you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'" .... "NICE BIRD, asshole," said Locke.

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud

This is your brain on magic.

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said.

An argument," said Dr. Walid. "It's an argument of wizards.

Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thousand fiery snakes streaked out of the night and swarmed him. They covered his body. They slithered into his mouth and nose, into his eyes and ears. They went in the easy way and came gnawing out through his back and chest and belly. And he screamed. And screamed. And screamed.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.