Quotes About Magic

There's a kind of magic that must be learned with toil and difficulty, line by line, spell by spell, the magic of the Book of Necromancy - and then there's another kind that springs from the depths of the heart, from caring for someone and loving him. It's hard to understand, I know, but you had better trust that magic, Krabat.

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning 'in the tip of her finger' than others acquired in a lifetime. When her house was searched in 1680 twenty-five manuscript volumes on the occult sciences were found.

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

Magic rituals provided emotional empowerment in the face of danger, and inspired solutions when alternative sources of knowledge (including science) were inadequate.

Even if their magic is of the flesh? I cannot say if there are spells and curses, but I have known enchantment in my life.

During the first break-in I grabbed a load of hangers and thought, 'Magic' , I'll be able to sell this stuff down the pub. But I'd forgotten to take a flashlight with me, and it turned out that the clothes I'd nicked were a bunch of babies' bibs and toddlers' underpants. I might as well have tried to sell a turd.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

The Great Perfection I learned from my naturally aware mind. I have realized that all phenomena are like dreams, like magic.

Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.

Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery

There is a last word to be said about the fairy tale. The old woman sends the soldier down into the deep darkness, promising him treasure, but telling him to bring back to her just one thing: an old tinder box. He succeeds, but instead of giving it to her, he kills the old woman and goes off to have his own adventures with the box and the magical genie inside. This is a complicated ending, but worth pondering.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.

Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book.

Crep, strep, venefica est mortua ...

Wizards are a secretive lot.

Wizards don't all look alike.

Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give' em half a chance.

Beauclaire focused his attention, and I felt his magic send shivers of ice along my arms.

The lawyer's assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. "Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I've read that wizards can't be in the same room with things like computers and stuff." I knew where she'd read that. I bit my

people needed to be turned into frogs. Or pigs.

Witchbane," he said. "Witch's Spawn." He grimaced, or maybe he smiled. "Something like that, maybe. I forget.