Quotes about Enchantment

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.

There was something northern about him that magnetised her.

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

how infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things.

It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.

An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.