Witches are those who practise witchcraft or magic. They have the power of bewitching or casting a spell on someone. Most people think witches don't really exist, but we can assure you witches have existed at some point throughout history. If you don't believe me, check out this post on famous witches that have existed.
These witch quotes that we have compiled for you, can either have been featured in some horror movies or appeared in some books, or they might just be quotes that talk about witches themselves. Read and enjoy these quotes, especially when 31 October is here! Happy Halloween everyone!
1"I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings."
Anya Taylor-Joy
2"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."
Terry Pratchett
3"The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'"
Gerald Gardner
4"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."
Margot Adler
5"What’s the matter? I have to be a witch, I have to be a mortal, I have to be a teenager and I have to be a girl all at the same time. That’s what’s the matter."
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
6"I am wicked in many ways."
Jessica Spotswood, from Born Wicked
7"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"
Glinda the Good Witch, from The Wizard of Oz
8"The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun. The light has been broken, the spell has begun."
Midgard Morningstar
9“For all you know, a witch may be living next door to you right now.”
Roald Dahl, from The Witches
10“The witch knows nothing in this world is supernatural. It is all natural.”
Laurie Cabot
11“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch."
Samantha, from Bewitched
12“It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us."
J.K. Rowling
13"You have witchcraft in your lips."
William Shakespeare
14"Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it."
Mikhail Bulgakov
15"Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy."
Tanya Luhrmann
16"Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it."
Terry Pratchett
17"I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them."
Yoko Ono
18“Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a witch.”
Catherine M. Valente, from In the Night Garden
19“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
William Shakespeare
20"The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction."
Ari Aster
21"I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something."
Sarah Pinborough
22"Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem."
Janet Montgomery
23"You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs."
Peter S. Beagle
24"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung."
Henry David Thoreau
25“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”
André Breton
26“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
Rod Serling
27“Let the universe move you, surprise you, challenge you, and support you—as a witch, your connection to it is mystical and beautiful.”
Tonya A. Brown
28"Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves."
Madchen Amick
29"The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives."
Kate Forsyth
30"What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other."
John Updike
