Quotes About Magic

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

You believed this river pebble was a star stone, so it became one.

A sorceress indeed.

you are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow...

once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...

loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

little children adore me - I'm a Troll Tamer and they know it!...

the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

Under a final section he called "Spiritual Gifts/Powers," Chad bizarrely wrote that wizards, sorcerers, and witches actually existed, as did the spells and curses in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, which required "great focused will to use.

Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

which Frank and I later refined and published as the book, Magic Demystified: A Pragmatic Guide to Communication and Change.4

In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

It was a paradox of life behind walls, that where any day could end in blood, every morning contrived to start exactly the same. A man woke and, for two beats of his heart, didn't know where he was or what he'd become. Those few seconds were magic, a warm flicker before reality walked across his chest, the black dog of remembrance trailing at its feet.

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

Rumplestilskin ha vuelto

This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one. (The Mummy, Universal Studios, 1932)

Most runic inscriptions are utilitarian, and despite popular conceptions, they have little to say about mythology or magic.

Viking names included 'desirous of beer', 'squat-wiggle', 'lust-hostage', 'short penis', 'able to fill a bay with fish by magic', 'the man who mixes his drinks' and 'the man without trousers'.

Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything—activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic.