Quotes About Tarot Cards

#1. Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.

Armistead Maupin

#2. We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

A. E. Waite

#3. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#4. I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

Mark Roberts

#5. Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Using the tarot cards was like when he had begun learning Latin. He danced ever closer to that moment when he would understand the sentences without having to translate each word.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

#8. I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.

Franny Armstrong

#9. Of fortune cookies and tarot cards they have no need: my wheelchair, burn scars, and gnarled hands apparently tell them all they need to know. My future is written on my body.

Alison Kafer

#10. Tarot Cards are your guidance cards.

Nikita Dudani

#11. I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Stephan Jenkins

#12. They won't understand," Persephone said. She laid her deck of tarot cards on the table in front of him. "They didn't when I came back."
"Am I different?" he asked.
"You were different before," Persephone replied. "But now they won't be able to stop noticing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls ... collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer ... commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

Scott Adams

#14. My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#15. I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Lee Ryan

#16. The tendency to believe vague statements designed to appeal to just about anyone is called the Forer effect, and psychologists point to this phenomenon to explain why people fall for pseudoscience like biorhythms, iridology, and phrenology, or mysticism like astrology, numerology, and tarot cards.

David McRaney

#17. The Majors are the preachers, teachers and wisdom keepers, The Minors are your everyday highs, your lows, your woes and what grows, while the Courts are the actors, the players and the trouble makers.

Tonya Sheridan

#18. According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

Brendan I. Koerner

#19. Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

Jack Parsons

#20. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Jennifer Tilly

#21. I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

David Blaine

#22. You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

H.R. Giger

#23. Tarot is just stories on cards.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. Qabalah is a portrait of what it means to be human, what it means to be divine and exist. That is what the theory of Qabalah is meant to accomplish. And tarot is that same exact portrait, done as a deck of cards. It is a portrait of the workings of the invisible universe.

Wald Amberstone

#25. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.

Sasha Graham

#26. Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind.

Benebell Wen

#27. Tarot brings us out of ourselves. It moves our perceptions outwards and onto the cards. Rather than living with the possibility imagined in our mind's eye, the possibility is spread on the table before us.

Sasha Graham

#28. Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.

Benebell Wen

#29. It seems that these old cards were conceived deep in the guts of human experience, at the most profound level of the human psyche. It is to this level in ourselves that they will speak.

Sallie Nichols

#30. Tarot Reading is an art based on intuition, interpretation, and perception.

Nikita Dudani

#31. Tarot Card are the best friend you can ever have. They are always there for you.

Nikita Dudani