Garrett Fort Quotes

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

I don't believe in voodoo.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

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

I was in a phase when I was obsessed - I still am - with fortunetellers and psychics.

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.