Magic Circle Quotes

#1. The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.

P.S. Baber

#2. How can she explain to Gustaf that within the magic circle of maternal energy, Irena has never manage to rule over her own life? How can she explain that the constant proximity of the mother would throw her back, into her weakness, her immaturity?

Milan Kundera

#3. Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

Richard Whately

#4. From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

William S. Burroughs

#6. Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

Jim Butcher

#7. The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

Barbara Pym

#9. We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

Craig Johnson

#10. The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

Francis Harold Cook

#11. In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in the sky,
That circle 'round a gleaming eye,
Turning darkness all away,
Even depths will know their day,
For every shadow has its end,
In light!
Life will return again!

Robert Fanney

#12. I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.

Laure Eve

#13. Success and wealth would be pretty useless if I didn't have my family.

Christopher W. Hodges

#14. And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

Isabel Allende

#15. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#16. Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#17. I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. The more you give, the more good things come to you.

Robert Muller

#19. Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Philip K. Dick

#20. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

Diane Setterfield

#21. Take as much time as you need to feel what is demanding to be felt in the present moment. But keep in mind that all emotions are temporary reactions and they can't be sustained for long periods of time. Allow them to settle and rest without reigniting them through judgement or shame.

Emily Maroutian

#22. In Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly:

Alain De Botton

#23. You're my always. I love you so much. I'd do anything to see you this happy. - Avery Adams

Kindle Alexander

#24. Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country
road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life.

Autumn Morning Star

#25. There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Robert Southey

#26. You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

Tim Vine

#27. But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

John Dryden

#28. I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Allison Silverman

#29. Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Paul Oakenfold

#30. Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

Rick Riordan

#31. She didn't even want to think of how hellish it would be if all the MacGregors made her feel like this one did, all hot and shaky. She'd have to move to the Arctic Circle before the month was out just to cool off.

Michelle M. Pillow

#32. If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#33. If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Penny Marshall

#34. It's funny, sometimes, when you look at the people who brought you into this world and you see yourself so clearly in them.

Robert McCammon

#35. Dear rabbis, I'm so sorry, I nuked your circle dude. Here is his head as a souvenir. Yeah, that would fly.

Ilona Andrews