Fritz Leiber Quotes

I don't believe in voodoo.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

It's really sad how many people believe in curses.

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

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

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

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.