Paulo Coelho Quotes

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

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.

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.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

For a long time, the paranormal was a legitimate area of explanation for quite a lot of people.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she was a witch and that my grandmother was also a witch. It was late at night, and she was really sleepy, but I took it very seriously because I always wanted to go to Hogwarts.

I can't explain witchcraft.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!