Quotes About Magic

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so, ' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner, ' he wailed.

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human." "Half-Light, " she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

The old women are most learned, but will not so readily be got to talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of; and are there not many stories of old women who were nearly pinched into their graves or numbed with fairy blasts?

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

Y comprendí que la fuerza que alentaba tal esperanza no era más que esa convicción primitiva y mágica que todos tenemos, la convicción de que yo era el único que jamás moriría.

los abogados modernos son, en realidad, poderosos hechiceros. La principal diferencia entre ellos y los chamanes tribales es que los abogados modernos cuentan relatos mucho más extraños. La

Not all people get the same chance to cultivate and refine their abilities. Whether or not they have such an opportunity will usually depend on their place within their society's imagined hierachy. Harry Potter is a good example. Removed from his disinguished wizard family and brought up by ignorant muggles, he arrives at Hogwarts without any experience in magic. It takes him seven books to gain a firm command of his powers and knowledge of his unique abilities.

ritual is a magical act that makes the abstract concrete and the fictional real.

In the minds of the illiterate peasants, who did not speak Latin, "Hoc est corpus!" got garbled into "Hocus-pocus!" Thus was born the powerful spell that can transform a frog into a prince and a pumpkin into a carriage.6

Según los legisladores franceses, si un abogado autorizado seguía la liturgia y los rituales adecuados, escribía todos los conjuros y juramentos en un pedazo de papel bellamente decorado, y añadía su adornada rúbrica al final del documento, entonces (¡abracadabra!) se constituía legalmente una nueva compañía. Cuando

pero los humanos necesitamos creer en ellos. Así, ¿cómo hacer que el relato se perciba como real? Es evidente por qué los humanos quieren creer en él, pero ¿cómo se lo creen realmente? Ya hace miles de años que sacerdotes y chamanes dieron con la respuesta: mediante rituales. Un ritual es un acto mágico que hace que lo abstracto sea concreto y lo ficticio,

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.