Richard Jefferies Quotes

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?

Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them.

All Gods were immortal.

Seances remind me of cabinet meetings. The spirits give conflicting advice.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity

We have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar. We have had to cap the natural with the supernatural to satisfy our love for the marvelous and the inexplicable.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

Ghosts exist.

I'm always wondering, if Bigfoot's not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.

My all-time favorite is Shaktimaan,' and a supernatural show that I really like has to be Naagin.'

I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them.

In a regular soap, you do the routine stuff, but in a supernatural show, there are so much more to do and learn.

'Legacies' is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

I've had a few ghostly encounters.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe

You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.

A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.