Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

You want to know how to stop this killer? Forgive yourself, and he’ll disappear from your life forever.” “Thanks. I’ll be sure to do that.” And I know: 1. This is almost the same conversation I’ve had with myself many times before. 2. Gordon’s only trying to help. But it doesn’t matter. I: 1. Say, “See you later.” 2. Step outside. 3. Close the door. I don’t want to, really. I want to go back inside and believe Gordon’s words, like a child believing in a fairy tale, and I want to escape this nightmare forever. But I can’t. I realize now that it’s easy to tell the difference between a real problem and an imaginary one. It’s just the terror of facing the truth that’s hard.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Fairy-tales are nice.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.