Welcome to a collection of profound and thought-provoking pagan quotes, where the wisdom of ancient traditions meets the modern world. Paganism, with its diverse and rich tapestry of beliefs, rituals, and spiritual practices, offers insights that resonate across cultures and time periods. Whether you are drawn to the reverence for nature, the celebration of the cycles of life, or the exploration of the mysteries of existence, the words of pagans past and present have the power to inspire, challenge, and illuminate.
In this curated selection of pagan quotes, you’ll encounter voices from various traditions and perspectives, each offering a unique glimpse into the essence of paganism. From the poetic reverence for the natural world to the profound insights into the interconnectedness of all things, these quotes invite you to contemplate the deeper mysteries of life and existence. So, delve into the wisdom of the ages, and let these quotes serve as guiding lights on your spiritual journey. Remember, the wisdom of the ancients is as relevant today as it ever was, offering timeless truths to enrich and inspire our lives. Below, you’ll find a treasury of pagan quotes waiting to be explored and embraced.
To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration. Mother Angelica
I consider myself a pagan and a witch. Matt Skiba
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don’t trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I’m a pagan or an animist. Gloria Steinem
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society. Brendan Myers
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people’s minds and properties. John Foxe
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man’s and woman’s desire for each other as divinely designed. Meir Soloveichik
In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we don’t have that, and horror is a place you can be immersed in it. Robert Eggers
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don’t care about the ‘woo’ anymore. Brendan Myers
It was pretty fun to watch Jose Reyes, and Angel Pagan, too. Fernando Tatis Jr.
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery. Michael Shellenberger
There’s a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah – all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today’s contemporary culture. It’s so important to so many people. Robert Eggers
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process… has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas. M. H. Abrams
While the Bible’s account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah’s Ark will honor the Bible as God’s word and not treat it as a pagan fable. Ken Ham
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Lord Byron
Cremer’s ‘Nightshade’ is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves. Andrew Shaffer
I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way – I didn’t know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn’t enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk. Lou Doillon
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don’t think so. Richard Rohr
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. H. P. Lovecraft
I haven’t been baptised. My dad’s not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual – she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I’m proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I’m still looking for my god. Ville Valo
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love. Victoria Woodhull
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. Carl Olson
I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year’s Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it. Joseph Brodsky
‘Zeal’ is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended. Reza Aslan
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. Terry Pratchett
‘Pagan Day’ was Alex Fergusson’s idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV. Genesis P-Orridge
It’s a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was ‘real’ religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that’s why it’s completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices. Ann Leckie
I enjoyed history at school. I’d always had a sense of pagan England. Damon Albarn
I’m pagan. V. E. Schwab
I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values. Varg Vikernes
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. Dixie Lee Ray
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times. Nostradamus
I’ve found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. Julian Clary
The Vikings certainly didn’t write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings. Michael Hirst
Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January – both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts. Alice Roberts
Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth – those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives. Jay Parini
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled. Israel Zangwill
Ingenious prisoners have successfully claimed a range of novel entitlements, from fertility treatment to a right to keep twigs in their cells to wave as wands in pagan rituals. Dominic Raab
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country’s inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem – and largely a hindrance, not an asset. Dennis Prager
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. John McGahern
There is a project that I did back in 2008 with a Norwegian guitar player, Jorn Viggo Lofstad, who plays in Pagan’s Mind. We wrote a rock album, and we never released it. Floor Jansen
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. D. H. Lawrence
All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar. John Burnside
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history. Brendan Myers
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. Saint Basil
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. G. Gordon Liddy
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. Douglas Reed
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just. Brendan Myers
I think people hear the words ‘transcendental meditation’ and ‘paganism,’ and that’s almost worse because it’s real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are – whether we want to be or not – we live in a pagan culture. Matt Skiba
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals. Dave Hickey
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard. Pope John Paul II
I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake. Hailey Gates
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. John Lothrop Motley
Certainly in Catholic countries, the peasantry have always found ways to integrate pagan things in a way that makes it a little bit easier just to be a human being. Robert Eggers
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive. Hugh Masekela
Funerals are a pagan rite. There’s not any doubt about it. Steve Earle