Top 100 Enchantment's Quotes
#1. Whoever is devoid of the capacity of 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
#2. Truly, there is magic in fairytales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time ... ' to allure and spellbind an audience.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#3. There are now more phone connections in the world than there are people.
John E. Mackey
#4. Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.
Philip Roth
#5. If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
Honore De Balzac
#6. Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.
Christopher Moore
#7. [At a musical concert:] ... the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
Conrad Aiken
#8. Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
Donald Miller
#9. Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.
Shilpa Sandesh
#10. I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love
Anna Akhmatova
#11. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass; the enchantment was all in me.
Maya Panika
#13. In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.
Luis Barragan
#14. Then one day it dawned on him that in his heart lay a key to the state of enchantment- of being in love..!
Aporva Kala
#15. In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing ... his very gestures express enchantment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Anais Nin
#17. And Anwin said, "It turned out just as an enchantment should."
"But Anwin, it wasn't an enchantment really, it just - "
"Yes, child, it was the greatest enchantment of all." He winked at the prince. "Gillie understood all along what the enchantment was.
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
#18. According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#19. Look closely Jane. This is Majesty Park, the city of wonder. Here you are free to dream dreams and follow them wherever they may take you.
Elle Alexander
#21. Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.
Dave Mustaine
#22. Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough - it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based - but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec.
Cassandra Clare
#23. I gotta say, I was really feeling the robe, but there's something about a girl in cartoon pajamas that does it for me.
Stacey O'Neale
#24. The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
Enchantment's Syndicate.
To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a Knock
To walk within the Veil.
Emily Dickinson
#25. 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
#26. You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.
Solange Nicole
#27. Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.
Guy Kawasaki
#28. I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#29. The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
Martin Shaw
#30. My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
Arthur Symons
#31. The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.
Noel Coward
#32. I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
William S. Burroughs
#33. Guess your feelings is like charming a cobra with a stethoscope, a boyfriend told me once. Meaning what? Meaning that pain turned me venomous, that diagnosing me required a specialised kind of enchantment, that I flaunted feelings and withheld their origins at once.
Leslie Jamison
#34. Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.
Molly Ringle
#35. I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
Nicolas Cage
#36. A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.
Guy Kawasaki
#37. Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.
Guy Kawasaki
#39. Marriage is a wonderful thing, the wonder of wonders. It is a veritable garden of delights, a perennial fountain of the most exquisite sweetness, happiness, a land of enchantment. The riches and honors of the world are nothing in comparison with it.
John Jaques
#40. 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
#41. Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it ...
Akiane Kramarik
#42. Oh god, I thought, can nothing in this jungle behave as it ought? Must fruits move and trees breathe and freshwater rivers taste of the ocean? Why must nothing obey the laws of nature? Why must everything point so heavily toward the existence of enchantment?
Hanya Yanagihara
#43. That sea - that mother of a million summers,
Who bore, with melody, a million springs,
Shall sing for my enchantment...
Stella Benson
#44. Tessie Moran, eighteen and not yet in love, was dreaming of handsome young men and moonlight. She could not easily be roused from her enchantment.
Antoinette Stockenberg
#45. The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.
Mark Donnelly
#46. Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.
Nino Cerruti
#47. Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.
Deepak Chopra
#49. No magical abilities had ever revealed themselves to me no matter how much I wished for them. But I had a vast source of will. And will was an enchantment that no being could touch because I alone could wield it. That was power.
Roshani Chokshi
#50. The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Jean Cocteau
#51. Nothing is ever truly gone ...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow.
-Hem at Zelika's grave
Alison Croggon
#52. Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview.
Timothy Keller
#53. Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui.
James K.A. Smith
#54. Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
Salman Rushdie
#55. If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
Guy Kawasaki
#56. 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 Company
#57. Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore De Balzac
#58. The combinations of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love which we are discussing ... What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#59. Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale ... at the moment.
Vera Nazarian
#60. I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.
Franklin Pierce
#61. If you still believe in magic,
you're subject to enchantment.
Toba Beta
#62. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
Michael Dirda
#63. Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
Carl Jung
#64. To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism
John Lane
#65. I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettinesses.
Soren Kierkegaard
#66. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn and fairy tales come true.
Walt Disney Company
#67. The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
Angela Carter
#68. The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie journey.
C.S. Lewis
#69. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
Christopher Lee
#70. If consciousness is currency, I've got me a goldmine!
Kim Falconer
#71. The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust - and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#72. Now the broken-off parts of her life, the fragments, bits, puzzle pieces, began to fall into place, to assemble themselves, as invariably they do once we are under the enchantment of Death.
Joyce Carol Oates
#73. Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Mark Twain
#74. The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.
Guy Kawasaki
#75. When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#76. In order to be enchanted we must be, above all, capable of seeing another person - simply opening one's eyes will not do.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#77. But the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
Peter S. Beagle
#78. The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still
Peter S. Beagle
#79. It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.
Steve Maraboli
#80. Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.
Tim Tharp
#82. You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
C.S. Lewis
#83. One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.
David O. Russell
#84. I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?
Alfred Lunt
#85. Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.
Kenneth Anger
#86. The cool enchantment of evening has arrived after the prostrating heat of summer's day and we lie quietly in anticipation of Your luminous appearance - Mysterious Selene, Whose Lunar Orb relieves the dark of night.
Lady Svetlana
#87. So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It started when the earth was born." Her eyes were closed. Her face was golden in the setting sun. "It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
Jerry Spinelli
#88. Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#89. Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie's heart had somehow faded with it.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#90. There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?
Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?
Watch my mouth grin wide and see,
How quick your lips smile back at me!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#91. The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
Mary Stewart
#92. Tomorrow will always hold curiosities but it is the enchantment of today's possibilities which has me true to the present.
Truth Devour
#93. For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.
Shea Hembrey
#94. Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.
Donna Lynn Hope
#96. Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#97. And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).
Kola Boof
#98. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#99. I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
Jon Anderson
#100. It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.
Thomas Moore