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Quotes About Magic

I could see the moon a million times and it would never lose its magic. You could kiss me in a billion ways, every last one would be romantic.
~ Terri Guillemets
O but stay tender, enchanted
~ H.D.
It is easy enough to call men from the edges of the earth. It is easy enough to summon them to my feet with a thought– it is beautiful to see the tall panther and the sleek deer-hounds circle in the dark. It is easy enough to make cedar and white ash fumes into palaces and to cover the sea-caves with ivory and onyx. But I would give up rock-fringes of coral and the inmost chamber of my island palace and my own gifts and the whole region of my power and magic for your glance.
~ H.D.
Za..." We were struck dumb again. D-Did he just say the anti-magic armor Zanaffar?! "Hey, Zel! This isn't what you told us!" "Like I'm some expert!" Well, fair enough.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
Welcome to Erehwyna!
~ Hal Duncan
THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Whatever has happened, there is always that magic winter haunting and hurting me with its marvelous echoes. The shortest days of the year, when nothing had begun and nothing had ended, all the roads of life were alive, and time beat round me like a heart.
~ Han Suyin
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The elf-maidens had already begun to dance, and they danced a scarf dance, with scarves woven of mist and moonshine; these have a lovely effect to those who care for that kind of thing.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.
~ Harold Jones
Action Painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.
~ Harold Rosenberg
play The Tempest
~ Harold Schechter
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
~ Harry Houdini
In dat gedicht wilde ik de liefde vergelijken met het soort licht dat je vlak na zonsondergang soms tegen de bomen ziet hangen: van dat toverachtige licht. Dat is het licht, dat in iemand zit die van iemand anders houdt.
~ Harry Mulisch
As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive everyone, apart from Musa (as) and those who believed in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up what they had forged," as the verse puts it: We revealed to Musa: "Throw down your staff." And it immediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false. (Surat al-A'raf, 117-8)
~ Harun Yahya
You cannot dance up there," he said, quietly. "I can see you are in mourning. But you are welcome to dance here, among the magic. Please. Come and mend you broken hearts here. Come back, every night.
~ Heather Dixon
The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out.
~ Heather Dixon
Why Do Fairies Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?
~ Heather Dixon Wallwork
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
~ Laurie Cabot
rainbows and starfish.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
In my hefty elf sack, your nightmares now keep. Better think twice before falling asleep - The Nightmare Elf
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Parent time is magic: downtempo and supersonic all at once, witch's time, sorcerer hours. Suddenly, while you aren't paying attention, everything's changed.
~ Laurie Frankel