Sorcery's Quotes

#1. Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain.

Scott Lynch

#2. It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

Carlos Castaneda

#3. Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

Carlos Castaneda

#4. It's a whole other kind of sorcery - pulling the pieces of a shattered heart back together, and it's one I know nothing about.

Daniel Jose Older

#5. The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

George R R Martin

#6. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

Melodie Campbell

#7. Every day you live is a lesson in itself.

T.A. Uner

#8. Don't let western authors and evangelists fool you, Europeans were NOT killing witches; they were killing WOMEN. If the criminal act was allegedly that of sorcery/witchery, we would have seen similar accounts and charges against men to justify these narratives! They were indeed killing the WOMEN.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#9. He reached out and laid a hand against Quick Ben's brow, then grunted. 'He's on his way back. It's protective sorcery that's keeping him asleep.' 'Can you speed things up?' 'Sure.' The healer slapped the wizard. 'Quick Ben's eyes snapped open.

Steven Erikson

#10. Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.

Gail Dayton

#11. Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.

Lev Grossman

#12. He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.

Taylor Rhodes

#13. Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. My entire view of the world has changed," he muttered as he went to the sink and began to scrub at the plates. "Sorcery, entities from the Outside, fish-men in my family tree, I can accept. Mr. Farr and Mr. Durfree as lovers crosses the line.

Jordan L. Hawk

#16. This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existence, and if he did not shield himself, everything he did not have to give would belong to her.

Danielle Monsch

#17. I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

Jeff Smith

#18. She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

Gail Dayton

#19. Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.

S.M. White

#21. Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne

Jeanine Henning

#22. To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carlos Castaneda

#23. 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

#24. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating

Priya Ardis

#25. He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.

Steven Brust

#26. I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Put it away or use it."
I chuckled at Butch's threat. Flipping the sword in the air, I caught it with ease.
"Show off," he muttered swabbing at the wood around my chair.

Freedom Matthews

#28. Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just as he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

Caroline Stevermer

#29. She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'
'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.

Donna Thorland

#30. Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Jess C. Scott

#31. Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey.

C.L. Wilson

#32. The sorcery is not confined to the story; it's matched by the magic of Austin's literary craftsmanship.
--Leland Dirks, author of Angelo's Journey

R.L. Austin

#33. Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

Bill Vaughan

#34. The warmth in his eyes flared to heat and he captured her hand in both of his, bending over it to hold his lips against the back a long moment. He did not exactly kiss it so much as breathe her in. She feared her hand smelled of bacon, but he didn't seem to care.

Gail Dayton

#35. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

T.F. Hodge

#36. You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.

James K. Morrow

#37. Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames.

Betsy Schow

#38. The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Leo Tolstoy

#39. How many did she kill?"
"Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies."
Reign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. "Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

Danielle Monsch

#40. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient

Steven Pinker

#41. Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.

George R R Martin

#42. There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#43. You are sweet to be so concerned over my love life, but I've decided only to date guys who have bigger swords than me.

Danielle Monsch

#44. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

Karlheinz Deschner

#45. There is no evil in sorcery, only in the hearts of men

Merlin

#46. I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.

Richard K. Morgan

#47. The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. "And the magic is in its making alone. Do you understand? There is no sorcery here - none that I can detect.

Robin Sloan

#48. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Priya Ardis

#49. I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.

Bec McMaster

#50. A Sorcery community? Do they have a Facebook page?

Leia Shaw

#51. Evie's eyes widened. More interesting than dope and sorcery?

Libba Bray

#52. A tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister's desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received very well. I believe I shall call it, ' Tis Pity She's a Corpse.

Susanna Clarke

#53. SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

Ambrose Bierce

#54. Now what?" asked Fat Charlie. "Shall we all join hands and contact the living?

Neil Gaiman

#55. There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

Will Durant

#56. That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.

George R R Martin

#57. I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

Frederick Lenz

#58. In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#59. Though she teased at explanations of sorcery in both her life and in her art (an early dust-flap biography called her "a practicing amateur witch," and

Shirley Jackson

#60. The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality. It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light.

Haruki Murakami

#61. Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Alan Dean Foster

#62. The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.

Sully Tarnish

#63. Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

George R R Martin

#64. There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people and they can't be a problem if you are aware of what they are doing.

Frederick Lenz

#65. It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!

Ernest Cline

#66. 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

#67. Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so,' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner,' he wailed.

Poul Anderson

#68. Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon's opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

Sully Tarnish

#69. Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.

Frederick Lenz

#70. Flathead on the mountain. Taking them one at a time, she had the can of brains that belonged to each one opened and the contents spread on the flat head, after which, by means of her arts of sorcery,

L. Frank Baum

#71. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

S.M. White

#72. The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Thomas Jefferson

#73. Doing what's right is always simple. Not easy, perhaps, but simple.

Helen C. Johannes

#74. My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.

Jack Vance

#75. Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

George R R Martin

#76. People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

Frederick Lenz

#77. Imagine a perfect world

Bruce McQueen

#78. I don't do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.

Danielle Monsch

#79. History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...

Lilian Whiting

#80. Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

Robin Hobb

#81. Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

John Banville

#82. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#83. To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

#84. Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Caroline Stevermer

#85. It's sorcery," Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. "That's the explanation." "I'm a scientist," she said. "I need a little more than 'a wizard did it.

Christopher Farnsworth

#86. I stood in line in a blizzard for six days to discover the sorcery of the smartphone.

Rick Riordan

#87. Violence always leads to pain Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades

Keith Collier

#88. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Priya Ardis

#89. Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

George R R Martin

#90. Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.

Leonid Andreyev

#91. Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

Rumi

#92. Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me.

Jo Grafford

#93. Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

Hakim Bey

#94. A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

Charles De Lint

#95. How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.

Rae Carson

#96. I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

#97. At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

Hayao Miyazaki

#98. Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of power and danger surrounding him.

Jo Grafford

#99. It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Lynn Abbey

#100. Suppose it really was a school for magic. Was it any good? What if he'd stumbled into some third-tier magic college by accident? He had to think practically. He didn't want to be committing himself to some community college of sorcery when he could have Magic Harvard or whatever. "Don't

Lev Grossman