Supernatural Quotes

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

“All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.”
― Jaye Frances, The Kure

“Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.”
― Eric Kripke

“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky and brilliant ideas, it can never produce a well-founded, substantial work of art that requires the utmost presence of mind.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, Die Serapions Brüder

“Where got she her sullen mouth
And where her swaying form?
Would she live on eggs and apples
When the blood of men is warm?
(“The Young Witch”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!”
― Eca De Queiroz, The Mandarin and Other Stories

“We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse.
—Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala”
― Eric Kripke

“Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.”
― Eric Kripke

“A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.”
― Doug Dillon

“A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance...”
― Cameo Renae, In My Dreams

“I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.”
― Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries

“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.”
― Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby

“The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.”
― Lisa Grace

“Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion.”
― B.C. Sirrom

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years.”
― Howard Kerr, The Haunted dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920

“Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter.”
― Doug Dillon

“I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.”
― Melody Carlson, Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely

“But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.”
― Charles Nodier

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed in the living.”
― Leland Hall, Cold Harbour / Sinister House

“People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural.”
― Sherry K. White

“The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.”
― Joe Iacovino, In The Shadow Of The Sun

“A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil--of people passing through its radiant embrace into that hideous, unearthly life-in-death which I had seen enfold the sacrifices--of armies trembling into dancing atoms of diamond dust beneath the green ray's rhythmic death--of cities rushing out into space upon the wings of that other demoniac force which Olaf had watched at work--of a haunted world through which the assassins of the Dweller's court stole invisible, carrying with them every passion of hell--of the rallying to the Thing of every sinister soul and of the weak and the unbalanced, mystics and carnivores of humanity alike; for well I knew that, once loosed, not any nation could hold the devil-god for long and that swiftly its blight would spread!”
― A. Merritt, The Moon Pool

“Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is”
― Domingos Monteiro

“Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart—if I had one.”
― Jaye Frances, The Beach

“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Nil Sine Magno Labore
("Nothing without great effort")

--Motto of Brooklyn College”
― Tony-Paul de Vissage

“Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.”
― Doug Dillon

“Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.”
― Doug Dillon

“She was sitting at the kitchen table, naked. She had a chopper in her right hand. Her left hand was flat on the able in front of her. She’d chopped off her thumb, index and middle fingers. They were in a neat row on the table, which was thick with dark blood.”
― Barry Graham, Of Darkness and Light