Enchanting Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Witch Quotes

""A Witch is a woman who emerges from deep within herself. She is a woman who has honestly explored her light and learned to celebrate her darkness. She is a woman who is able to fall in love with the magnificent possibilities of her power. She is a woman who radiates mystery. She is magnetic. She is a witch.""

- Dacha Avelin

""Being a witch means living in this world consciously, powerfully, and unapologetically.""

- Gabriela Herstik

""You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.""

- Glinda

"The only thing you need to get started down the path of magic is yourself. Your power is hidden within, waiting to be tapped into, and practicing magic will give you the ability to heal and change yourself and the world."

- The Spell Book for New Witches: Essential Spells to Change Your Life, by Ambrosia Hawthorne

""Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.""

- William Shakespeare

"Look: All your powers are already inside you. A witch is simply someone aware of their power and not afraid to use it to get what they want."

- Sex Witch: Magickal Spells for Love, Lust, and Self-Protection, by Sophie Saint Thomas

"Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft."

- Starhawk

""A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood.""

- Roald Dahl

""For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death.""

- Terry Pratchett

""It’s sort of exciting, isn’t it? Breaking the rules.""

- Hermione Granger

""Now is the time. This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power.""

- Nancy, Rochelle, Bonnie

""Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.""

- Catherynne M. Valente

""Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.""

- Franny Billingsley

""I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That's me.""

- Maya Angelou

""Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.""

- Toni Morrison

""Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.""

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."

- Margot Adler

"You've always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself."

- Glinda (The Wizard of Oz)

"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."

- Paulo Coelho

"A witch ought never 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

"Witchcraft...is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life."

- Christopher Penczak

"Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of witchcraft."

- Starhawk

"Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a witch."

- Catherynne M. Valente

"A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy around problems. Then the problems fix themselves."

- Dacha Avalin

"Magic comes from what is inside you. It is part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't believe in."

- Jim Butcher

"Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do."

- Franny Billingsley

"The witch is undoubtedly the magical woman, the liberated woman, and the persecuted woman, but she can also be everywoman."

- Kristen J. Sollee

"I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being."

- Yoko Ono

"The witch is the ultimate embodiment of the divine feminine—and the demon feminine. She has as many faces as the Moon, so regardless of your background, there is an iteration for you."

- Kristen J. Sollée

"Words such as ‘witch’ have been redefined in the light of their true origin and nature. Instead of the evil, dried-out, old prude of patriarchal lore, we know the witch to be a strong, proud woman, wise in the ways of natural medicine. We know her as a self-confident freedom fighter, defending her right to her own sexuality and her right to govern her life and community according to the laws of nature. We know that she was slandered, oppressed, and burned alive for her wisdom and her defiance of patriarchal rule."

- Luisah Teish

"The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women’s empowerment."

- Mädchen Amick

"‘Witch’ is something we call a woman who demands the benefit of the doubt, who speaks the truth, who punctures the con, who kills your joy if your joy is killing."

- Lindy West

"If the broom / fits the witch / it is time to / ride it / act up / resist."

- The Yerbamala Collective

"You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts, and your magick wisely!"

- Dacha Avalin

"A witch is a woman who worships herself as her own god. She is the creator of her own life, healer of herself."

- Maura Dillon

""I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.""

- Helen Oyeyemi

"Being a witch means living in this world consciously, powerfully, and unapologetically."

- Gabriela Herstik

"The first time I called myself a witch was the most magical moment of my life."

- Margot Adler

"Being a Witch gives you the power to heal yourself, change your life, change your world, and conjure your every dream."

- Juliet Diaz

"Witches exist throughout space and time. Witchcraft brings together the magical people throughout the world for the shared goals of justice, liberation, and celebration of the life force of the earth."

- Amanda Yates Garcia

"Witches are the original activists. Any time you have something that has to do with empowerment and being free and being wild and being who you are, there’s definitely going to be some opposition to that."

- Bri Luna, The Hoodwitch

""Everyone deserves a chance to fly.""

- Winnie Holzman

""I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right. I’m the witch.""

- Witch, Into the Woods

"I want to teach people the positive sides of witchcraft and brujería and how they can help you change your life."

- Valeria Ruelas

""There’s a little witch in all of us.""

- Aunt Jet Owens

""We have nothing if not belief.""

- C.S. Lewis

"When I say witchcraft is a spirituality, I mean it is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life."

- The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation, and Psychic Development, by Christopher Penczak

""Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.""

- Francesca Lia Block

""There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.""

- Carrie Fisher

""She is both hellfire and holy water. And the flavor you taste depends on how you treat her.""

- Sneha Pal

"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."

- Terry Pratchett

"There's a little witch in all of us."

- Aunt Jet (Practical Magic)

""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.""

- Sabrina

""Death cannot be feared. For death, in time, comes to all witches.""

- Leo Wyatt

""For all you know, a witch may be living next door to you right now.""

- Roald Dahl

""Must be the season of the witch.""

- Donovan

"For all you know, a witch may be living next door to you right now."

- Roald Dahl

""Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?""

- Black Phillip

""Remember, ‘Peace on earth, goodwill to men’ includes witches.""

- Samantha Stephens

""Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!""

- The Wicked Witch of the West

"The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun. The light has been broken, the spell has begun."

- Midgard Morningstar

"In this whole side wicked world the only thing you have to be afraid of is me."

- Fiona, (AHS Coven)

"’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world."

- William Shakespeare

"You have witchcraft in your lips."

- William Shakespeare

""You’d think they’d never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before.""

- Jiji

"When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers 'tis near Halloween."

- unknown

"Witchcraft is weird, wild, and hard to define."

- Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism, by Sarah Lyons

"There’s a little witch in all of us."

- Aunt Jet Owens

""Just because you can put it on doesn’t mean that it fits. And Just because it fits doesn’t mean that you SHOULD wear it.""

""Eres fuerte. Eres valiente." (You are strong. You are brave.)"

""Cross a Witch, you will never cross water again.""

""The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.""

""Love many Trust few Always paddle your own canoe.""

"I be the witch of the wood."

"Flip the switch and let the cauldron bubble."

"Remember, 'Peace on earth, goodwill to men' includes witches."

"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."

"The day he left me was the day I died. But then I was reborn as a witch."

"Like others before me, I have the gift of sight. But the truth changes color, depending on the light. And tomorrow can be clearer than yesterday."

"You’d think they’d never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before."

"I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch."

"You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself."

"The day we found magic, I thought we were going to change the world."

"You girls need to learn to fight. When witches don’t fight, we burn."

"Relax, it’s only magic."

"It’s impossible and it’s true. I’m a witch."

"The magicks I used are very powerful. I’m very powerful. And maybe it’s not such a good idea for you to piss me off."