Top 120 Thomm Quackenbush Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

52. “I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

53. “Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom.”

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54. “He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.”

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55. “Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.”

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56. “The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there as the perfect cover, since no one would ever believe them.”

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57. “Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.”

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58. “She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.”

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59. “If you can’t feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good.”

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60. “But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don’t flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.”

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61. “There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?”

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62. “Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.”

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63. “Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion cannot be giving them what they think they want, since it is unreasonable to want to be hateful.”

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64. “When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.”

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65. “The aftertaste of New Year’s Eve parties wears on me for the same reason I am not much for resolutions. Dusting off a stepper because we switched out our calendar is pointless. After all, society also conditions that most will whiff their resolutions by January 3rd, at which point one is to abandon the resolutions utterly and feel guilty as one devours a box of Christmas chocolates.”

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66. “Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.”

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67. “Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.”

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68. “My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.”

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69. “The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak something here or there to live happily ever after. It allows for spiritual sloth in the certainty of providence.”

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70. “When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say “blessed be” and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.”

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71. “People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.”

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72. “I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.”

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73. “Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.”

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74. “The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.”

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75. “Cliches work by appealing to the collective unconscious. They are the Pachbel’s Canon in D of writing, something familiar the talented can riff off to create a distinct work.”

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76. “You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.”

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77. “They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.”

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78. “I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.”

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79. “She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn’t know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don’t know and you don’t know you know and you don’t know you don’t know. She may not know what she does know.”

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80. “I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can’t imagine a forever without her kisses.”

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81. “Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She’s practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot.”

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82. “I was a monster until you dared to treat me as a man.”

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83. “Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.”

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84. “Every year my feet touch its murky water, my soul feels cleaner.”

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85. “Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.”

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86. “My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won’t be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.”

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87. “If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.”

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88. “The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.”

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89. “There’s always someone stumbling upon the weird and thinking they are the first.”

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90. “It felt relaxing to be someone else’s myth.”

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91. “It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.”

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92. “Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.”

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93. “As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.”

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94. “Salem has become this... Mecca for Wiccans, but no witches died here. Aside from Tituba, no one practiced anything like witchcraft near here in colonial times. It was a bunch of bored Puritans who thought killing their neighbors at the behest of teenage girls was a fine, Christian form of entertainment and land acquisition.”

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95. “Mythology didn’t cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.”

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96. “If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.”

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97. “Everything mortal wears a chain with its death on the other end. None of you should escape that you are on earth only a very short time, but you all think you have figured out how to be gods. Tell me the story of the man who sees his death and loves it as much as it loves him.”

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98. “The term “panic” derives from Pan, the god of the woods. People lost deep in the forest report a terror, as though trees might conspire against them. Nature has no special regard for humanity. Panic is our brain’s way of reminding us we should be humble.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

99. “I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant.”

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100. “It is no surprise this is the reputed to be the greatest city in the world. It is a blob of brick and neon connected by the arterial subway, equal parts fear and wonder. It breathes, more robotic than organic, but alive.”

— Thomm Quackenbush