83 Unicorn Quotes to Spark Your Imagination

By Norbert Juma

Master quote curator and editor on a mission to inspire

Published August 16, 2022

There are few things as imaginative as a unicorn.

Use these unicorn quotes to spark your creativity.

There is something that just feels magical about the mythical unicorn.

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They have long been loved by children that love to dream up creative stories and are great at using their imaginations.

It’s something that we can all learn from.

If you need a little help getting creative in your life or work, these unicorn quotes below can help you to tap into your imagination and think of things in a new way.

The ability to reach into your creative thinking is all within your control by how you think about things.

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Unicorn quotes to spark your imagination

1. “Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?” – Jay Baer

2. “A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view.” – Ron Sexsmith

3. “I thought unicorns were more… fluffy.” – Terry Pratchett

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4. “I might act like a rhinoceros, but I’m a unicorn.” – Nuno Roque

5. “Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Dr. Seuss

6. “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

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7. “When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a unicorn. A badass unicorn.” – Sebastien Milon

8. “It’s like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.” – Eoin Colfer

9. “Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.” – Damon Suede

10. “Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” – Martin Espada

Unicorn quotes to make you think outside the box

11. “I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see the at all, to look at them and see something else – what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?” – Peter S. Beagle

12. “Unicorns,” I said. “Very dangerous. You go first.” ― Jim Butcher

13. “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

14. “Now I will believe that there are unicorns.” – William Shakespeare (see more William Shakespeare quotes)

15. “‘Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!’ Well, now that we have seen each other,’ said the unicorn, ‘if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.’” – Lewis Carroll

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Thoughtful quotes about unicorns

16. “The unicorn is not known for its horn, beauty, or purity; but for it’s strength and courage as one.” – Nicole Beckwith

17. “I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I’m a little bit more of a unicorn, because I’m like a little bit more horsey.” – Blake Lively

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18. “Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?” – Bruno Mars

19. “Most people say, ‘Show, don’t tell,’ but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they’re like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that somebody else will love them as much as they do.” – Colson Whitehead

20. “‘The unicorn’, she said, ‘was a marvelous beast, shining with honor, wisdom and strength. Just to see him strengthened the soul.’” – Megan Lindholm

21. “My favorite wild animal is a narwhal – the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.” – Kesha

22. “A legend – now I am like a unicorn.” – Jean Giraud

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23. “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

24. “This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.” – Bernard DeVoto

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25. “… no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.” – Peter S. Beagle

26. “There’s something about girls and unicorns that’s deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.” – Ted Naifeh

27. “I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. 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 (see more Lady Gaga quotes)

28. “Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we’d give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: they’d reveal their majestic ways.” – Unknown

29. “I love nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” – Dr. Seuss

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30. “Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.” – Benny Hill

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31. “There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.” – Neil Gaiman

32. “Be realistic with your expectations. I’d really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it ain’t going to happen.” – India Knight

33. “If I’m talking to a guy who’s straight and cute and single, I’m like ‘are you a unicorn?’” – Margaret Cho

34. “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

35. “Sorry… I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn.” – Mira Grant

36. “I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.” – Sasha Pivovarova

37. “… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.” – Jeff Lindsay

38. “What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.” – Peter S. Beagle

39. “Keep calm because unicorns are real.” – Unknown

40. “You are like a unicorn who brings ice cream. You are too good to be true.” – NotSalmon.com

41. “Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn.” – Unknown

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42. “Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.” – Jaime Murray

43. “Be a unicorn in a field full of horses.” – Unknown

44. “A friend told me I’m delusional. I almost fell off my unicorn.” – Unknown

45. “Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a unicorn to ride about the town.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

46. “It would have been nice to have had unicorns.” – Tom Stoppard

47. “It’s going to be a rainbows and unicorns kind of day.” – Unknown

48. “Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.” – Czeslaw Milosz

49. “Make your life story so amazing that unicorns have trouble believing it is true.” – Karen Salmansohn

50. “The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.” – Graham Joyce

51. “When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.” – Nicholas Stuart Gray

52. “Unicorns aren’t magical and beautiful. They’re just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins.” – Delilah S. Dawson

53. “Just roll me in fairy dust and call me a unicorn.” – Lita Burke

54. Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.” – William Faulkner

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55. “Unicorns practically breathed magic. He was to a horse what a horse was to a pig, four tiny cloven hooves shone like burnished silver, slender legs as graceful as an antelope’s led to a slender body, a delicate neck with an arch like the stem of a lily-blossom and a head like the blossom itself, crowned with that glorious pearly horn. And the eyes- big golden-brown eyes you could fall into and never come out of.” – Mercedes Lackey

56. “I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn’t feel sorry if other people don’t have one.” – C. JoyBell C

57. “Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.” – Peter S. Beagle

58. “Be a diamond-studded unicorn; unbreakable & unique.” – Coco

59. “You may have stopped believing in unicorns, but they never stopped believing in you.” – Unknown

60. “Why a unicorn? Maybe the unicorn, too, is one of the men without women.” – Haruki Murakami

61. “Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.” – Herman Melville

62. “Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.” – Claudia Bakker

63. “I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.” – Diana Peterfreund

64. “So you’re a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.” – Lemony Snicket

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65. “The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.” — Brandon Mull

66. “The last unicorn wasn’t really the last. And maybe she still isn’t.” — Laura Alden

67. “The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.” — Peter S. Beagle

68. “My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns.” — Jarod Kintz

69. “Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.” — Bryn Greenwood

70. “You’re a talking unicorn. Sometimes when you poop, it comes out as rainbows and smells like cookies. There is nothing subtle about you.” — T.J. Klune

71. “He is my unicorn, though… That’s how I felt falling in love with him, as if I’d found a creature of myth.” — Rivka Galchen

72. “’Unicorns,’ she whispered. Rahela nodded. The most beautiful of all the Mother’s children.” — Jennifer Roberson

73. “Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.” — Ness Kingsley

74. “The question of historicity and actuality with regard to Gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the God and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.” — Odell Shepard

Thought Provoking Unicorn Quotes

75. “Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.” ― William Faulkner

76. “She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.” ― Victoria Dahl

77. “I had to admit it was adorable. You know, in a unicorns-farting-out-rainbows kind of way that made me want to hurl.” ― Gemma Halliday

78. “Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist.

Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.” ― Tegan and Sara

79. “Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.” ― Olley White

80. “That is exactly what heroes are for. Wizards make no difference, so they say that nothing does, but heroes are meant to die for unicorns.” ― Peter S. Beagle

81. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Unknown

82. “take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness” ― Matthew Gray Gubler

83. “It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.” ― Jeff Mach