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Unicorns are magical creatures, loved by those both young and old. These beautiful, mythical creatures have been the subject of many stories for centuries.
As a symbol of freedom, magic, and imagination, unicorns bring people joy all across the world. These unicorn quotes will brighten your day and inspire you to believe in your dreams. They are great for giving you a boost of confidence or something to laugh about.
These unicorn sayings and captions are great for reading when you are wanting to get away from the realities of the real world, which can be quite stressful. They will remind you that there is magic in the world, even when times are hard.
Interesting Unicorn Quotes and Sayings
Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
Unknown
Be a unicorn in a field of horses.
Unknown
Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a unicorn to ride about the town.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You may have stopped believing in unicorns, but they never stopped believing in you.
Unknown
It’s not a unicorn – it’s a horse with a sword on its head that protects my hopes and dreams.
Tad Quill & Gabrielle Allan
Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves — for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.
Peter S. Beagle
The unicorn is not known for its horn, beauty, or purity; but for it’s strength and courage as one.
Nicole Beckwith
Now I will believe that there are unicorns.
William Shakespeare
Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.
Damon Suede
Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.
Olley White
Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.
Claudia Bakker
Someone told me to grow up yesterday. I immediately banned that person from ever riding my unicorn!
Unknown
A unicorn doesn’t stand around and worry about what other unicorns think of it. It just sparkles.
Unknown
All the beasts obeyed Noah when he admitted them into the ark. All but the Unicorn. Confident of his own abilities, he boasted, ‘I shall swim.’
Ukrainian folktale
You weren’t born to be perfect. You were born to be a unicorn, but that is pretty much the same thing.
Unknown
The unicorn was a marvelous beast, shining with honor, wisdom and strength. Just to see him strengthened the soul.
Megan Lindholm
I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.
Sasha Pivovarova
There’s something about girls and unicorns that’s deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh
The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all, there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive.
Terry Brooks
The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.
Lady Gaga
Make your life story so amazing that unicorns have trouble believing it is true.
Karen Salmansohn
It’s like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
Eoin Colfer
Life’s all about rainbows, glitter and unicorns.
Unknown
What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
Peter S. Beagle
Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer’s heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.
Bruce Coville
Be a unicorn. Embrace your uniqueness.
Unknown
Be a diamond-studded unicorn: unbreakable and unique.
Coco
Unicorns don’t lose sleep over the opinions of little ponies.
Unknown
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Czesław Miłosz
Keep calm because unicorns are real.
Unknown
Also, don’t forget to read our fun guide, 21 interesting facts about unicorns.
Literary Unicorn Quotes
Over the decades, unicorns have been mentioned in countless fictional books and stories. Ranging from fantasy epics, romances, and kids’ stories, unicorns add a magical and mystical touch to a scene. Below is a selection of unicorn quotes and sayings from famous literary works we think you’ll like.
Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!
Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass’.
Unicorns don’t care if you believe in them any more than you care if they believe in you.
Regal Unicorn, ‘Magic The Gathering Card’.
It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn.
Peter S. Beagle, ‘The Last Unicorn’.
God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.
Edward Topsell
‘Unicorns,’ she whispered. Rahela nodded. The most beautiful of all the Mother’s children.
Jennifer Roberson, ‘The Court Of The Summer King’.
There’s unicorns all over everywhere, even Woodmont. You know that, I know that, maybe nobody else does. You look for them, you listen for the music, you listen for Shei’rah.
Peter S. Beagle, ‘The Unicorn Sonata’.
You try reading fantasy books all your life – have a unicorn walk by your bus bench on a hot day, with everything you’ve ever wanted tied up in a neat bundle- and see if you wouldn’t do almost anything to have it.
Steven R. Boyett, ‘Ariel’.
All the beasts obeyed Noah when he admitted them into the ark. All but the Unicorn. Confident of his own abilities, he boasted ‘I shall swim’.
Ukrainian folktale
Today it is said that the unicorn never existed. However, it is marvelously clear that when the unicorn was first described and centuries later when the tapestries were woven, everyone believed in unicorns.
Marianna Mayer, ‘The Unicorn And The Lake’.
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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
Tanith Lee, ‘Black Unicorn’.
…I can o’ersway him; for he loves to hear that unicorns may be betray’d with trees, and bears with glasses, elephants with holes, lions with toils and men with flatterers.
William Shakespeare, ‘Julius Caesar’.
When God created the earth, He made a river which flowed from the Garden of Eden… then told Adam to name the animals… and the first animal he named was the unicorn. When the Lord heard the name Adam had spoken, he reached down and touched the tip of the single horn growing from the animal’s forehead. From that moment on, the unicorn was elevated above other beasts.
Nancy Hathaway
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
Peter S. Beagle, ‘The Last Unicorn’.
