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  • Author
  • born 1939
  • 108 quotes

Peter S. Beagle, an author (born 1939), is quoted 108 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Unicorn, Men, People and Hero.

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Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

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