Fortune Telling Quotes

“She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand.

This world isn't the only one.”
― CLAMP

“Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.”
― Sasha Graham, Tarot Fundamentals

“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.”
― neil gaiman, American Gods

“I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World dancer. Because when the Fool followed her own path and trusted herself, she found herself in the World. And by the time she did, she was so high on the music-so enraptured by the dancing, so lost in the beauty, so in tune with herself, and so filled with magic-she didn't even realize she'd arrived at her destination.”
― Sasha Graham, 365 Tarot Spreads: Revealing the Magic in Each Day

“Sages told the king that prince Siddhartha would become a Sanyasi, To avoid it, king kept him within the luxuries of the palace for years. When prince went out, he suddenly saw sick, old, dead and suffering people. He became a Sanyasi.

Had prince gone out and seen suffering from childhood, he would have become used to it like we have. He wouldn’t have become a Sanyasi. Telling the destiny and avoiding the destiny are a part of destiny.”
― Shunya

“Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“If you roll the dice often enough you always get the numbers you want. If I tell you the sun will shine tomorrow and that it will rain and there will be snow and that clouds will cover the sky and that wind will blow and that it will be a calm day and that thunder will deafen us, then one of those things will turn out to be true and you'll forget the rest because you want to believe that I really can tell the future.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings

“Petty fortune telling was the field of the wishful. Witches dealt in blood and bones.”
― Ginn Hale , The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates

“Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets
which hold their rolled up fortunes
transcribed on ola leaf.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting

“The Universe has faith in you even if you don't.' the Gypsy Queen said, 'That why I am here, to be a thread of your tapestry, even you couldn't see the whole picture quite just yet.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem, Kintsugi

“Tarot is storytelling. It's what we do when we read the cards. Telling stories imbues us with supernatural power - the power to change our story.”
― Sasha Graham, The Magic of Tarot: Your Guide to Intuitive Readings, Rituals, and Spells

“July 11. She had always liked those numbers, seven and eleven. In charada, the mystical significance of dream images. There were charadas all around the world. In the santería charada, Angayú was eleven and Yemayá was seven. In the Cuban charada, matchbox was eleven and excrement was seven. In the American one, mechanic shop was eleven and socks was seven. In the Chinese one, rooster was eleven and seashell, seven. In the Texas charada, horse was eleven and hog, seven. In the Indian charada, rain was eleven and sleep was seven. In the Aztec charada, factory was eleven and mariachis, seven.”
― Zoé Valdés, Dear First Love

“The person with a good heart and leading a virtuous life will envelop himself in a flourished countenance, creating a favorable condition for the form to develop, the color to brighten, the voice to strengthen, and other signs of good karma. By contrast, the person with a bad heart and leading a malicious life will damage his or her countenance, form, color, and voice, creating a condition conducive to bad karma.”
― Quyen Quang Tran, Physiognomy: The Art of Reading People

“That kind of swagger. The “I got this” energy. That’s the Magician. You see this card a lot with successful people, or with people who’ve just found the correct path in their life and have just had that Eureka! moment. He’s President Barack Obama backed by the P-Funk All Stars. Just sit down, kiddo. He’s got this covered.”
― Melissa Cynova, Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot

“Make a wish,” Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, “and turn it clockwise three times.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Cole felt like he’d stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Psychic reading without spiritual guidance is futile fortunetelling at best, and fatalistic fear-mongering at worst.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Yeah, I guess I am a sadistic piece of shit. What can you do? What else is there to do? My grandfathers were Soviet officers in Germany. They were Men. Now what is my Father? he's a little bitch who ran away from Russia in 1998. What's his fate? Well. He's gonna get fucked in the ASS with so many different things, you can't even imagine.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Although Etteilla receives little credit in popular literature today, he can credited with many ‘firsts’': he was certainly the first to popularise fortune-telling with playing cards , the first to promote card reading as a professional activity and the first to publish books on the subject. He also was the first to use a pseudonym as a constant pen-name, initiating a tradition which was to flourish among XIX-oentury esoteric writers, as the following chapters will abundantly demonstrate. Thanks to Etteilla, Court de Gébelin's theory about the 'Egyptian' origin of the Tarot had a wider diffusion and fortune-telling with Tarot cards became popular. He was the first. too, to attempt to incorporate Tarot cards into a system of magical theory: his example, though not his means of doing so, was to be followed by others whose infuence has persisted longer.
Last but not least, he can be credited too with the invention of the very word cartomancie, or rather of its forerunner, ‘cartonomancie', which appeared in his writings from 1782. Amazingly, one of his disciples was about to publish a book on 'cartomancie' in 1789 (the first occurrence of such a word in a European language), but as the book is now lost we only know it from Etteilla's very critical review, rejecting this quite new and ‘illogical’ word to which he opposed his ‘better’ cartonomancie. Nevertheless, cartomancie took hold and its use spread. In 1803, it entered de Wailly’s French dictionary, and from these it has found its way into alnost all European languages,
Jean-Baptiste Alliette died on 12 December 1791. He was only 53, which is, even in the XVIII century, a rather young age at which to die, We unfortunately know nothing of what he died of. Etteilla was a fascinating character and deserves more than giving his name to a strange Tarot pack. There is something touching in the man, who was sincere and passionate, generous and enlightened (in all the meanings of the word in the late XVIII century.”
― Ronald Decker, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot

“Authentic psychic prediction reflects free will and personal power, not fate and fortune. It reveals only the next few steps, not the entire staircase.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception

“[With] prophetic insight: My conclusion is that only the potential for the future can be seen. The future can be changed. The psychic reads the map, but free will decides the path we take.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide

“Fortune-telling that employs psychokinesis [such as table tilting and ouija boards] is very unreliable. The movements of the table or the apparent accuracy of the messages spelt out on the ouija board can be very convincing. Spiritual forces can work through these techniques [...] but the sitter's inner fears and hopes can influence the 'communication'.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide

“After several years of channeling, [my spirit guide,] Orin told me that he wanted to teach me about the future and probably realities. For a period of several months, he gave me various preditions which came true. Several times he gave me exact newspaper headlines and dates, several months prior to their occurring.

All the predictions centered around mass events. In all these events he would point out that they were already being set up, envisioned and planned by those in charge and he was only projecting events by reading the mass mind and probably outcomes.

He told me that large scale event are easier to predict because they have energy lines from mass consciousness set up many months in advance. The psychic weight of these events, the mass agreement around them, the numbers of people involved, make it much harde to stop or change such events.

One person can change his mind and thus change his future easily; but an event affecting many people is not usually altered by just one person changing his mind.”
― Sanaya Roman, Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide

“Our destiny is exceedingly energy sensitive. Negative vibes and bad attitudes cannot attract positive outcomes. Your fate and fortune begins with you.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Lines of hands don't make destiny, labor of hands does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“for them, forecasting the end of the world is quite routine, and, as believers in the afterlife, they expect to be able to bask in glory when their prophecies of doom are proven right.”
― Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

“Are you anxious that a fortune teller might disclose things you'd rather not know? I assure you that if you already practice the valuable habit of self-analysis, their revelations won't come as a surprise to you in the least. If the thought still sends shivers down your spine, it indicates that you may not fully know yourself, and what is being offered to you is an invaluable opportunity to gain insight and deeper self-awareness.”
― Alice Mastroleo, Tarot for Practical People

“... And you know what she does for living? She tells fortunes."
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"What do you mean, she tells fortunes? Is she a commodity broker?”
― Glenn Savan