Enchantment Quotes

• Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Form

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

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• Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Strong, Flower

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• Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Soul, Might

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• We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

  Derrick Jensen

  Inspiring, Water, Needs

  Derrick Jensen (2002). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.537, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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• The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Fairy Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Add, Mystery

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• To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Looks, Life Is, Moments

  Alexandra David-Néel, Violet Sydney (1936). “Tibetan Journey”

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• She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

  Boris Pasternak

  Earth, Make Sense

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• Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Self, Found

  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Spells, Artist

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.51, Random House

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• Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Wall, Fall, Land

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• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Giving, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Religion, Turns, Small Places

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  J. B. Priestley

  Fall, Snow, Childhood

  "Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up". Book by by Ellen Dugan, p. 206, 2003.

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• Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Study, Kind

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.102, The Floating Press

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• It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Book, Facts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Heart, Simple, Differences

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• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

  Madison Cawein

  Sunset, Moon, Sea

  Madison Cawein (2017). “Kentucky Poems”, p.129, Litres

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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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• It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glowing, Purple, Imagination

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

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