Enchantment Quotes

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

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

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

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

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

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

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

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.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

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.

Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

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.

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.

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.

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

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.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.