H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

I walk in the realm of the supernatural.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

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

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

I happen to collect the weird stuff - photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

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