50 Fortune Teller Quotes And Saying To Inspire You

“The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.” – Cherie Priest

“Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.” – Stella Young

“A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don’t you know that a donkey can’t do but braying, a wolf can’t do but howling, a horse can’t do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can’t do but telling lies?” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.” – Erin Morgenstern

“I’m excited about what the future holds. I’m not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, “What are you going to do?” I don’t know. I kind of love not knowing.” – Jennifer Aniston

“Life-ahead is timeless fortune.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.” – Warren Buffett

“Common sense is the best fortune teller.” – Matshona Dhiliwayo

“For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building’s front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your ...

... house.” – Kim Young-ha

“It wasn’t magic that called me to you, but a prophetic sign inviting me in with promises of intimacy dancing from the tongue of fate, dipping and twirling me into transparency. My skin was a crystal ball and you were the fortune teller; everything that I had ever been, and all that I am to be, was right there, ...

... between the palms of your hands, and you didn’t see yourself in my future.”

“Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.” – Amish Tripathi

“Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future,” the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair.” – Erin Morgenstern

“Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.” – Tadashi Shoji

“Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.” – Anthon St. Maarten

“Thus the ‘fortune-teller’ is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they ‘see’ is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers’ claims.” – Jostein Gaarder

“My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.” – Luke Goss

“The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.” – Ryan Ross

“A secret admirer will soon send you a sign of affection.”

“Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.” – Terry Pratchett

“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert ...

... dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.” – Walter Benjamin

“Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.” – Ed Seykota

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing?” – Simona Panova

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.” – Tiffanic DeBartolo

“I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.” – James Caan

“I am no fortune-teller, but from my observations we have reason to believe that the fifth round of talks will be held on schedule and will lead to results.”

“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible ...

... spurs to the imagination.” – Rebecca Solnit

“Never in any Jane Austen novel did the love interest pretend to be a fortune-teller,” Helen said, ‘Why would someone do that?” – Cynthia Hand

“To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.” – Woody Allen

“I’m not a fortune-teller.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“The one you love is closer than you think.”

“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.”

“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.” – Jason Fried

“You will be fine,’ the fortune teller says. ‘There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”- Erin Morgenstern

“What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?” – Helene Hanff

“I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it’s probably not even real. I just don’t wanna know.” – Paul Dano

“I’m not a fortune teller, but I know what would happen. I don’t wish something bad to happen, but I just know that everybody would surely get back what they gave to others.” – Nikitha Mallavolu

“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.” – Karl Kraus

“Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about.” – Stephanie Garber

“The fortune teller smiled when I said “I wanted to be a famous story teller”. He said “You are a writer, isn’t it?” – Scribbled Soul

“Science fiction writers aren’t fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.” – William Gibson

“Something you lost will turn up soon.”

“I’ve learned never say never.” – Carl Forti

“Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I’m hungry?” – Arthur Golden

“Everybody thinks they’re a prophet. They must, or nobody would get married. Or maybe at a 50% divorce rate, only half the people are fortune tellers. Probably the men.” – Jarod Kintz