Explore Quotes by Charles De Lint

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

The best artists know what to leave out.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.