Talismans Quotes

“Talismans are reminders of what is felt but not seen, what is so, but not immediately obvious.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“A cricketer who hits a century in one match may score zero in the next, if he does not have the same outfit, shoes and bat that he used in the first match. In fact, many sportsmen keep some kind of talisman in their pocket that acts as a lucky charm for their game. Here the talisman or the outfit doesn’t possess any magical power that helps the player to perform better. But it is their own subconscious reliance on the charm, that makes them give their best.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Your magic talisman is powerful: but are you a Solomon to make it work?”
― Idries Shah

“The lover's photograph hidden in a married woman's wallet, the poster photograph of a rock star tacked up over an adolescent's bed, the campaign-button image of a politician's face pinned on a voter's coat, the snapshots of a cabdriver's children clipped to the visor--all such talismanic uses of photographs express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: they are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography