354 Magic Quotes: Wonder & Amazement

A magical thought, inspired by the books he had read. But magic surely there was a little magic in the world. The people who denied the existence of magic, they were the ones that it went badly for.” – John Ajvide Lindqvist

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.” – Lev Grossman

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A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” – Laura Gilpin

A well told story can be magic. Let me show you…” – Jo Lynne Valerie

Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes.A magic beyond all we do here!” – J.K. Rowling

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.” – Nathalie M. Leblanc

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.” – Lita Burke

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

And men my prophet wail deride!” – Ilona Andrews

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s Book.” – C.S. Lewis

And that’s what I don’t like about magic, Captain. ‘cos it’s *magic*. You can’t ask questions, it’s magic. It doesn’t explain anything, it’s magic. You don’t know where it comes from, it’s magic! That’s what I don’t like about magic, it does everything by magic!” – Terry Pratchett

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.” – Lord Dunsany

And you’re overthinking things, Charming. Do the math. Naked, interested man, check. Wet, willing woman, double check. Now insert part A into slot B and we can move on to the engineering portion of our quiz today.” – Jane Cousins

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.” – Barry Gehm

Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.” – Rachel E. Carter

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess’s magick…” – Cate Tiernan

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.” – Julie Kagawa

As rain began to fall, Aldric worried the old machines would not be able to survive the weather.

Be confident to make your magic.” – Jay Woodman

Because now, the magic is everywhere.” – James Patterson

Because there’s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.” – Robin Benway

Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible.” – Morgan Rhodes

Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” – Roy T. Bennett

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?” – Diane Duane

Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

Books are the only things worth stealing.” – Sully Tarnish

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.” – Ray Bradbury

But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.” – Shel Silverstein

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.” – Stuart Hill

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain…” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!” – Magda M. Olchawska

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But remember. Just because you don’t believe in something doesn’t mean it isn’t real.” – Katherine Howe

But that is impossible,” said Peter.Magic is always impossible,” said the magician.It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.” – Kate DiCamillo

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.” – Susanna Clarke

But this didn’t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.” – Terry Pratchett

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.” – Franny Billingsley

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question.I suppose a magician might,” he admitted,but a gentleman never could.” – Susanna Clarke

Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.” – Scott Stabile

Children see magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore

cience is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.” – Aleister Crowley

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn’t subject to scientific analysis, and it’s not supposed to be real but it’s pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.” – Jo Walton

Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.” – Catherynne M. Valente

Come quickly. You mustn’t miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

Damn, but that made him want to put on a straightjacket.” – Kelly Moran

Ella, if it’s magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.” – Brad Barkley

Every spell is a journey.” – Lawren Leo

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” – Hermann Hesse

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we’ll never be alone.” – Shinobu Ohtaka

Fairy’s side note: Even people who don’t believe in magic really do.” – Janette Rallison

Find the magic within you.” – Granthana Sinha

For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.” – Jennifer Estep

For the same reason I can’t cast a spell to make your eyes green. You can’t create what already is. I was in love with you before that.” – Savannah Kade

Gina always believed there was magic in the world.But it doesn’t work in the way it does in fairy tales,” she told me.It doesn’t save us. We have to save ourselves.” – Charles de Lint

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?” – William Shakespeare

magic quotes about life

Hand me that oil can!” he shouted to Siomon. Magic machines need oil?” asked Simon. Of course they need oil. They’re not perfect.” – Jason Hightman

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,”scoffed Betony.It’s too difficult.” – Elizabeth Kay

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.-Into the Mystic.” – Van Morrison

He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had.” – Lev Grossman

He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service – the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting.” – Dan Simmons

He turned then and those blue eyes met hers from across the sea of people. Her stomach bottomed out. Damn it. She couldn’t be attracted to the arrogant ass. Somehow repeating herself wasn’t helping.” – Billi Jean

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.” – Walt Disney

His child says she doesn’t have the right pencils for the colors she sees.” – Cynan Jones

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” – Laini Taylor

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.” – Susanna Clarke

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” – Brian Selznick

I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature – my loyal friend and companion – always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed.” – Tom North

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us – like electricity and horses and steam.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that’s magic, then I believe in it.” – Natasha Mostert

I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said.I salute you, magician.” He swept her a bow from horseback. Vasya did not return the bow.To small minds,” she told him, spine very straight,any skill must look like sorcery.” – Katherine Arden

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling

I don’t believe it,’ Quince says with absolute certainty. ‘ I don’t believe anything magical can make someone more in love.’He looks me right in the eye as he says, ‘Love is already the strongest magic in the world.” – Tera Lynn Childs

I don’t differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.” – Andy Rooney

I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?” Darren raised a brow.I’m looking at it.” – Rachel E. Carter

I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” – Toba Beta

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.” – Catherynne M. Valente

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.” – E.T.A. Hoffmann

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.” – Alan Rickman

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I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.” – Claire-Louise Bennett

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.” – Robin Hobb

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.” – Charles de Lint

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.” – Patrick Rothfuss

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.” – Susanna Clarke

I will not tolerate mention of your abnormality under this roof!” – J.K. Rowling

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.” – Rod Serling

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.” – Gregory Maguire

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which.” – Patrick Rothfuss

If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.” – Claire-Louise Bennett

If you feel afraid of magic, then you’ve been enchanted.” – Toba Beta

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.” – Don Roff

If you look upcharming” in the dictionary, you’ll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?” – Deb Caletti

If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who always makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid magics that happened to Tavy will never happen to you.” – E. Nesbit

If you still believe in magic, you’re subject to enchantment.” – Toba Beta

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of Magic.” – Tom Robbins

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There’s a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.” – Neil Gaiman

In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.” – Lev Grossman

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.” – Katherine Howe

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.” – Patti Smith

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what’s off our human scale… at the moment.” – Vera Nazarian

Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?” I kid…It is life magic.” – Carrie Jones

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.” – Robert Fanney

It didn’t surprise her that in this world where art was magic, color was also it’s own alphabet.” – Kamilla Benko

It might have all the same; you never can tell what’s magic.” – Noel Streatfeild

It took place in the midnight in the University’s Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of which was strictly necessary but which made the wizards feel better.” – Terry Pratchett

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It was then that the seven-year-old said,I am ready. What wonderful place will we visit tonight?”I can take you wherever your dreams desire,” the calico pony replied on their first night together.” – Cheryl Price

It’s all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” – Charles de Lint

It’s always a choice, to do right or wrong, no matter the power.” – Mindee Arnett

It’s easy, there’s a trick to it, you do it or you die.” – Neil Gaiman

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” – Terry Pratchett

It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.” – Paulo Coelho

I’m not like you. I’ve never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people’s feelings. All I’ve ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.” – Rachel E. Carter

i’m your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it’s my duty to obey.” – Julie Kagawa

I’ve learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow.” – Shinobu Ohtaka

I’ve often thought that there isn’t anyI” at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.” – Aleister Crowley

Julia really likes school and she is one of the top students. Mikolay doesn’t mind the weekend school because he is allowed to do lots of magic, which he really likes and is very good at.” – Magda M. Olchawska

Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.” – Matt Posner

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.” – Patricia C. Wrede

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul. A hug at the right moment and a kind shoulder to lean on, Is the sprinkle of magic that keeps us walking towards hope.” – Mimi Novic

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.” – Orville Wright

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.” – Brian Rathbone

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly… but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.” – Mandy Hale

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.” – Sarah Addison Allen

Love and magic are like oil and water – they just don’t mix.” – Jasper Fforde

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” – Nora Roberts

Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical.” – Trey Parker

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises…” – Neil Gaiman

Magic can be found in stolen moments.” – Francesca Lia Block

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can’t weave together a spell that you don’t beleive in.” – Jim Butcher

Magic doesn’t require beauty,’ she said. ‘Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.” – Leigh Bardugo

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Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” – Nora Roberts

Magic gives you a lot of choices,” Grandad says.Most of them are bad.” – Holly Black

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.” – Marion Zimmer Bradley

Magic is a science. Miracle is the work. Mind is a laboratory.” – Toba Beta

Magic is a secret and secrets are magic.” – Erin Morgenstern

Magic is based on the tapestry of interconnectivity between you and the natural world.” – Sasha Graham

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Magic is channeling what you feel into something you can touch and see. First, you have to believe. Then you have to learn to translate emotions into words, or words into emotions, and then images into either.” – Connor Garrett

Magic is dangerous: it’s neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.” – Daniel Wallace

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon,” said Colin.It makes her think of ways to do things – nice things.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.” – Michael Scott

Magic is science. It’s simply a fancier term for showing people the impossible is attainable.” – Kerri Maniscalco

Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.” – Geerhardus Vos

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.” – Christopher Paolini

Magic is the dream of those who are left wanting, those to whom life has not been kind or generous. But these people, the people who had everything and watched the rest of mankind from a lofty perch above, they didn’t need magic. They already owned the world.” – Brenda Poppy

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.” – Karl Germain

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” – Amit Kalantri

Magic itself cannot be evil. It is how you use your powers that determines the intent.” – Julie Kagawa

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.” – Charles de Lint

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.” – Cassandra Clare

Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn’t need to be.” – Thomm Quackenbush

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.” – Morgan Rhodes

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.” – Susanna Clarke

Magic,” says Holly.Is a snaffle bit magic?” I ask him.All I know is that when I whisper to dirt, my conversations are less than meaningful.” – Maggie Stiefvater

Magic-that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.” – Robert Bloch

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated. Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.” – Paulo Coelho

Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we’ll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.” – Michael Moorcock

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.” – Christopher Healy

Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!!” – Mandy M. Roth

Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.” – Gerald Durrell

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don’t give up, sooner or later you’re going to find Mary Poppins.” – Steve Kluger

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.” – Toni Morrison

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.” – R.A. Salvatore

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None of this was what held Yeva’s gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.” – Meagan Spooner

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is, which is just a trick that can be explained.” – Jeff Guinn

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.” – Terry Brooks

Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know I existed. They’re things known from the outside. But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.” – Alberto Caeiro

O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.” – William Shakespeare

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day,but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?” – Neil Gaiman

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.” – J.M. Barrie

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.” – Phil Hine

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it’s all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can’t explain it.” – Maggie Stiefvater

One man’smagic” is another man’s engineering.Supernatural” is a null word.” – Robert Heinlein

Out last chance is a cat’s magic sight. We are doomed.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

People make mistakes all the time – some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.” – Rachel E. Carter

Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.” – Matt Haig

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn’t. But then again, what does?” – Terry Pratchett

Perhaps, thought Felix, that’s what magic is – physics with a different twist to it. my world just hasn’t discovered the twist.” – Elizabeth Kay

Personally, I’m a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don’t have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It’s magic. End of discussion.” – Janet Evanovich

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That’s all magic is in the end, you know.” – Richard K. Morgan

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” – Peter S. Beagle

Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.” – Terry Pratchett

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.” – Suzanne Palmieri

Remember, please is the magic word, but its not the Magic Wyrd.” – C.A.A. Savastano

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.” – Jefferson Smith

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…” – Kellie Elmore

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.” – Neil Gaiman

Science, you don’t know, looks like magic.” – Christopher Moore

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” – Terry Pratchett

Seven, Richie thought. That’s the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.” – Stephen King

She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.” – Terry Pratchett

She saw that magic and science were heads and tails of the same bright coin.” – Laini Taylor

She was a creature devoid of magic and yet, of all the strange and wondrous creatures in the world, the wand had chosen her.” – Elara Kandle

She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.” – Charles Bukowski

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.” – Megan Chance

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” – Sarah Addison Allen

So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?” – Rachel E. Carter

So why not live with the magic? Be a kid again and believe in the fantastical. Life is more fun with a little smoke and mirrors.” – L.H. Cosway

Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.” – Beau Taplin

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies… Tod Langley I have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.” – Tod langley

That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.” – Rachel E. Carter

That temper will get you burnt at the damn stake, Mama Mags used to tell her. A wise woman keeps her burning on the inside.” – Alix E. Harrow

That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.” – Leigh Bardugo

That’s because the true power of magic is not to send random objects careening off across the room. The true power of magic is to make ordinary people bow.” – Amaya Ash

That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.” – Erin Morgenstern

That’s the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.” – Patricia A. McKillip

That’s the thing about magic; you’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.” – Charles de Lint

That’s what makes you different from the rest of us, Quentin. You actually still believe in magic.” – Lev Grossman

The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding.Well, as long as you’re my friend, I’ll never ignore you,” he said with conviction.I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people.” – Mike Resnick

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.” – Zeena Schreck

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.” – Tamora Pierce

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.” – Cassandra Clare

magic childhood quotes

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.” – Michael Cunningham

The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they influence each other.” – Patrick Rothfuss

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.” – Tenacious D

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse […] stuck in my mind because of the subject’s flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings.” – Ben Aaronovitch

The magic of the moment is the miracle of life.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

The magic of the present moment that is warily stored in the granary of our memory may pop up at any time and usher us along the winding paths of our life, and light up the dead points in the dim curves of our journey.” – Erik Pevernagie

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.” – Rebecca Solnit

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.” – Peter Redgrove

The nails from a suicide’s coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.” – Aleister Crowley

The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come.” – Magda M. Olchawska

The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.” – Arthur Rimbaud

The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing.” – Jim C. Hines

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.” – J.K. Rowling

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it’s in there that the magic happens.” – Susan Branch

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil… my next The Opposite Of Magic.” – Ivan Stoikov

The truth is more magical – in the best and most exciting sense of the word – than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.” – Richard Dawkins

magic dust quotes

The witch’s eyes glint with an ominous mixture of the green and black and purple the sky turns before a tornado. Her lips and cheeks hint at a beauty behind a smile she has forgotten how to use. A patina of loneliness and years past obscure an allure that was more pronounced once upon a time.” – Connor Garrett

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.” – Dan Simmons

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.” – Howard Schwartz

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” – Alice Hoffman

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.” – Cate Tiernan

There is magic in all life.” – Nadia Scrieva

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.” – Luis Marques

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.” – Gene Wolfe

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.” – Terry Goodkind

There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.” – H. Rider Haggard

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.” – Paulo Coelho

There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn’t understand. Best get used to it.” – Rebecca Roanhorse

There’s a little bit of magic in every box!” – Adam Rex

There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.” – Nicholas Sparks

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.” – Anna Godbersen

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I’ve never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.” – Ben Aaronovitch

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.” – Erin Morgenstern

This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.” – Sarah J. Maas

To each his own magic.” – Libba Bray

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave – that was magical.” – Ransom Riggs

Tonight I had wrought magic powerful enough to have drawn the attention of a goddess. In that moment, though, I was certain of one thing: Of all the magic I possessed, none of it could begin to compare to the magic he and I created together.” – Jenna Maclaine

magic door quotes

Touch magic. Pass it on.” – Jane Yolen

Truly, there is magic in fairy tales. For it takes but a simply-uttered ‘Once upon a time…’ to allure and spellbind an audience.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

Wait until you meet my family. At Thanksgiving, we kill everything we can find, put it into a pot, and call it ‘holiday gumbo.” – Molly Harper

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!” – Kate Griffin

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J.K. Rowling

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.” – Tahir Shah

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.” – Robert Fanney

We need to go back” Claire repeated, but her words were less commanding than before. She drew in a deep breath as she looked at the moonlit walls. Slipping the pencil from behind her ear, she gripped it tightly, torn between an intense desire to draw what she was seeing, and the fear of being lost in a strange other world.” – Kamilla Benko

What if things happened to you – special, magic things – because you’d been preparing for them?” – Jennifer McMahon

What is magic? There is the wizard’s explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.” – Terry Pratchett

What is?’, he said. ‘What if?’ is a question that belongs to magic.” – Kate DiCamillo

When the mind, body, and spirit work together I believe anything is possible.” – Criss Angel

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.” – Paulo Coelho

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.” – Hilary Mantel

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.” – Christopher Paolini

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.” – Dez Del Rio

When you’re writing, you’re creating something out of nothing… A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.” – Susanna Clarke

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.” – Marsilio Ficino

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered – in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.” – Tamora Pierce

Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.” – Lita Burke

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.” – Sigmund Freud

Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.” – W. Somerset Maugham

magic dream quotes

You all have a gift. It’s free. It’s the gift of song.” – Christine E. Schulze

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.” – Daniel McHugh

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.” – Rachel E. Carter

You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.” – Naomi Novik

You know that mist isn’t natural. It never leaves. What weather is unchanging with the seasons?” – L.J. Stanton

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.” – Lewis Carroll

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.” – Michael Scott

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.” – Aldous Huxley

You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

You see magic as a weapon, Reid, but you’re wrong. It simply is. If you wish to use it for harm, it harms, and if you wish to use it to save. Together, we looked to Toulouse, who tucked a flower behind the woman’s ear. She beamed at him before rejoining the crowd. It saves.” – Shelby Mahurin

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after all.” – T.B. McKenzie

You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.” – Charlaine Harris

Your eyes are not in possession of all the facts!” – Terry Pratchett

Your hair is your glory. It’s perfect. You’ll see. With a tiny bit of magic you’ll be our SLIME QUEEN.” – Kendra Alston

“Magic isn’t in the wand. It’s in the person brave enough to wave it.” — Unknown

“The best tricks are the ones you never see coming — including the ones life plays on you.” — Unknown

“Every magician knows: the real secret is practice, not the hat.” — Unknown

“Believe in magic, but pack a spare rabbit just in case.” — Unknown

“The world is full of magic for those patient enough to watch closely.” — Unknown

“Abracadabra is just confidence with a cape on.” — Unknown

“Some doors only open for people who knock twice and believe.” — Unknown

“Magic is what happens when preparation meets a really good audience.” — Unknown

“Never trust a wizard who won’t show you the trick twice.” — Unknown

“The moon has been doing the same trick for centuries. We still look up.” — Unknown

“Real magic: finding your keys exactly where you swore they weren’t.” — Unknown

“A magician’s greatest trick is making Monday morning disappear.” — Unknown

“Some people see coincidences. Magicians see rehearsals.” — Unknown

“The hat is empty until you decide it isn’t.” — Unknown

“Magic doesn’t ask permission. It just shows up wearing glitter.” — Unknown

“Every great trick has three parts: the setup, the gasp, and the stunned silence after.” — Unknown

“Wands are optional. Wonder is mandatory.” — Unknown

“The oldest magic is a story told well by firelight.” — Unknown

“Misdirection isn’t lying. It’s choreography for the eyes.” — Unknown

“Keep a little magic in your pocket for the days that feel ordinary.” — Unknown

“A rabbit from a hat is impressive. Kindness from a stranger is the real sorcery.” — Unknown

“Magic school never taught me how to pay rent, but it taught me everything else.” — Unknown

“The trick isn’t making things vanish. It’s making people believe they were never there.” — Unknown

“Starlight is just the universe showing off its card tricks.” — Unknown

“Every magician starts as a kid who refused to stop asking ‘how?'” — Unknown

“Potions are just chemistry with better branding.” — Unknown

“The best magic happens offstage, when nobody’s watching.” — Unknown

“Never let them see you sweat. Or your sleeves.” — Unknown

“A spell is a wish with instructions.” — Unknown

“Magic is the art of making the impossible look like it was your plan all along.” — Unknown

“The cape doesn’t make the magician. The 10,000 failed tricks do.” — Unknown

“Somewhere right now, a kid is pulling a coin from behind someone’s ear and changing their whole day.” — Unknown

“Enchantment is just attention paid beautifully.” — Unknown

“Thunder is just the sky applauding its own lightning trick.” — Unknown

“Wizards age backwards: the older the spell, the younger the wonder.” — Unknown

“Don’t blink. The good stuff happens between blinks.” — Unknown

“A magician never reveals secrets, but always shares wonder.” — Unknown

“The most powerful magic word is still ‘please’ — try it sometime.” — Unknown

“Dragons are just lizards with good PR.” — Unknown

“Magic is the universe’s way of winking at you.” — Unknown

“Every locked door is just a trick you haven’t learned yet.” — Unknown

“The rabbit was never in the hat. The wonder was in you.” — Unknown

“Spells work best when you mean them and worst when you show off.” — Unknown

“A little mystery keeps the ordinary from getting boring.” — Unknown

“The night sky is the oldest magic show still running.” — Unknown

“Magicians don’t defy physics. They just negotiate with it.” — Unknown

“Start your day by believing one impossible thing. It makes the possible ones easier.” — Unknown

“The wand chooses the wizard, but the wizard still has to do the homework.” — Unknown

“Magic is 10% sparkle and 90% showing up on time.” — Unknown

“Never underestimate the power of a well-timed dramatic pause.” — Unknown

“The greatest illusion is a grown-up who still believes.” — Unknown

“Fairy dust is just glitter with ambition.” — Unknown

“Every card trick is a tiny story with a surprise ending.” — Unknown

“The real magic was the friends we fooled along the way.” — Unknown

“Wizards don’t get lost. They take the scenic spell.” — Unknown

“A potion for courage? It’s called trying anyway.” — Unknown

“Magic lives in the gap between what you expect and what actually happens.” — Unknown

“Keep your wand polished and your promises too.” — Unknown

“The show must go on — especially when the dove won’t cooperate.” — Unknown

“Ta-da is a complete sentence.” — Unknown