55 Enchanting Fantasy Quotes

In the realm of literature, few genres captivate the imagination quite like fantasy. With its boundless landscapes, mythical creatures, and epic quests, fantasy has the power to transport us to worlds where anything is possible. Within these magical narratives lie words that resonate deeply, encapsulating the wonder and mystery that define the genre. Whether whispered by wise wizards or declared by daring heroes, fantasy quotes often illuminate profound truths wrapped in enchantment. Join us as we explore a curated selection of the top 55 enchanting quotes that capture the essence of fantasy, offering inspiration, adventure, and a glimpse into the extraordinary.

1. “A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man's distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: 'This tower is most interesting.' But they also said (after pushing it over): 'What a muddle it is in!' And even the man's own descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: 'He is such an odd fellow! Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

2. “If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.” - Cornelia Funke

3. “If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.” - David Gemmell

4. “Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.” - C.S. Lewis

5. “The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.” - J.M. Barrie

6. “When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?” - Michael Buckley

7. “There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.” - R. Scott Bakker

8. “The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...” - Michael K. Bialys

9. “Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln” - Christoph Marzi

10. “May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.” - Kate Forsyth

11. “Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.” - Piers Anthony

12. “She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take.” - Christine E. Schulze

13. “In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is faced with disconcerting ontological and perceptual problems.Indeed, the disorienting effect of the supernatural encounter in fiction seems to reflect some deeper disorientations in the culture at large.” - Howard Kerr

14. “(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.” - Howard Kerr

15. “It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.” - Roger Caillois

16. “You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.” - Michael Ende

17. “Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken from suggestions in the real world, a dream well where weightless images from it floated, transformed by imagination. It prepared children, with these hints and traces of other people's bodies, to become adults and enter the landscape of adult sexuality and meet the lover face to face. Lucky men and women are able to keep a pathway clear to that dream well, peopling it with scenes and images that meet them as they get older, created with their own bodies mingling with other bodies; they choose a lover because of a smell from a coat, a way of walking, the shape of a lip, belong in their imagined interior and resonate back in time deep into the bones that recall childhood and early adolescent imagination.” - Naomi Wolf

18. “The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.” - Madeline Claire Franklin

19. “I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.” - Edward Abbey

20. “I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics.” - Laura Kreitzer

21. “Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?” - Meg Cabot

22. “I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.” - Oliver Neubert

23. “Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.” - Terry Pratchett

24. “You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.” - Lita Burke

25. “The most awesome powers are those not wielded.” - Brian Rathbone

26. “I didn’t ask for your help,” I muttered, too exhausted to properly argue. “So fuck you.”An alarm bell went off in my head and I bit back a sigh. I swore I sensed the mischievous grin that inevitably crossed his lips.“I already did you.”It was going to be a long drive.” - Natasha McNeely

27. “It is our time, our task and our destiny - from "Opoponax Dreams” - Genieve Dawkins

28. “It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.” - J.M. Barrie

29. “She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.” - Malinda Lo

30. “Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".” - Richard Nance

31. “Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it.” - Priya Ardis

32. “Lift your head to me...’ His is the kiss of a timorous lover. Feel his inhuman lips on the throat, the heat of it. The bite, when it comes, is cold. Begin to sink as the blood flows into his mouth; it is almost soothing. No pain. No pain at all. His teeth grind into the muscles; ecstasy and torment. Life, the very being, is flowing out. Unholy nourishment. Holy nourishment. Drained slowly.The trauma of it feels like being torn, but it is no more than suddenly having the ability to experience reality in a different way. Waiting for the end... for what? Cannot foretell. No longer flesh, no longer blood. Soul. Free.” - Storm Constantine

33. “If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.” - Priya Ardis

34. “Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion” - David Eddings

35. “I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me” - Carlyle Labuschagne

36. “S’ils participent tous deux des littératures de l’imaginaire, s’ils ont quelques points communs, comme par exemple leur localisation sur des planètes exotiques et la description de sociétés organisées selon des règles différentes des nôtres, la science-fiction et la fantasy n’en sont pas moins de nature très différente. L’une procède d’un retour à la pensée magique, elle est donc régressive, tandis que l’autre s’appuie sur les conquêtes de l’intelligence et du savoir. L’une flatte l’irrationnel, l’autre est un outil de questionnement du monde. La fantasy est une pure littérature d’évasion alors que la science-fiction est toujours en prise, même dans ses projections les plus lointaines, avec le réel.” - Jacques Baudou

37. “the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.” - Evan Meekins

38. “I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.” - Shannon Hale

39. “Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles.“I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?”“Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .” - J.K. Rowling

40. “It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."- Valek to Yelena” - Maria V. Snyder

41. “It's a good day to do great things!” - Randy Lipnitzky

42. “He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.” - Terry Goodkind

43. “Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.” - Milly Silver

44. “Trente chevaux sur une colline rouge; D'abord ils mâchonnent,Puis ils frappent leur marque,Ensuite ils restent immobiles.(Les dents)” - J.R.R. Tolkien

45. “In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning the loss of a dream. "I'm sorry." 'You're not alone, I just wanted you to know that. And someday, when I have my powers back and am free, I'm going to do some serious damage to the people who've hurt you.” - Kimberly Kinrade

46. “Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife...at the end of it you know you'll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies - but it'll be one hell of a story to tell your friends.” - D.E.M. Emrys

47. “What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. "I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp?"Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.” - Kelley Armstrong

48. “Uh, Lunitaris idish, shirak, damen du!” - Margaret Weis

49. “The finished clock is resplendent. At first glance it is simply a clock, a rather large black clock with a white face and a silver pendulum. Well crafted, obviously, with intricately carved woodwork edges and a perfectly painted face, but just a clock.But that is before it is wound. Before it begins to tick, the pendulum swinging steadily and evenly. Then, then it becomes something else.The changes are slow. First, the color changes in the face, shifts from white to grey, and then there are clouds that float across it, disappearing when they reach the opposite side. Meanwhile, bits of the body of the clock expand and contract, like pieces of a puzzle. As though the clock is falling apart, slowly and gracefully.All of this takes hours.The face of the clock becomes a darker grey, and then black, with twinkling stars where numbers had been previously. The body of the clock, which has been methodically turning itself inside out and expanding, is now entirely subtle shades of white and grey. And it is not just pieces, it is figures and objects, perfectly carved flowers and planets and tiny books with actual paper pages that turn. There is a silver dragon that curls around part of the now visible clockwork, a tiny princess in a carved tower who paces in distress, awaiting an absent prince. Teapots that pour into teacups and minuscule curls of steam that rise from them as the seconds tick. Wrapped presents open. Small cats chase small dogs. An entire game of chess is played.At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dress in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.After midnight, the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the cloud returns. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.” - Erin Morgenstern

50. “The fourth elf was younger than the others. This showed in the perfection of her skin, the agility and speed of her movements, and in the brightness of her dress. Her long silk garment was yellow and gold and green, and she wore a blue silk choker with a trailing silver scarf at her neck matching another at her waist. There was fire in her dark eyes which added to her overpowering beauty.” - Ian Livingstone

51. “They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a kind of passionate urgency.” - Amanda Turner

52. “In time, all will be well - for all of us.""You sound as if you truly believe that it will.""Why shouldn't I? For Arman has given us the end of the story, has he not? Shamayim will be a wonderful home, even if this one remains dark.” - Jill Williamson

53. “As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.” - Virginia McKevitt

54. “When she had arranged her household affairs, she came to the library and bade me follow her. Then, with the mirror still swinging against her knees, she led me through the garden and the wilderness down to a misty wood. It being autumn, the trees were tinted gloriously in dusky bars of colouring. The rowan, with his amber leaves and scarlet berries, stood before the brown black-spotted sycamore; the silver beech flaunted his golden coins against my poverty; firs, green and fawn-hued, slumbered in hazy gossamer. No bird carolled, although the sun was hot. Marina noted the absence of sound, and without prelude of any kind began to sing from the ballad of the Witch Mother: about the nine enchanted knots, and the trouble-comb in the lady's knotted hair, and the master-kid that ran beneath her couch. Every drop of my blood froze in dread, for whilst she sang her face took on the majesty of one who traffics with infernal powers. As the shade of the trees fell over her, and we passed intermittently out of the light, I saw that her eyes glittered like rings of sapphires.("The Basilisk")” - R. Murray Gilchrist

55. “Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.” - Charles de Lint