Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 8

• The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

  Terri Windling

  Journey, Land, Soul

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• The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Salt, Aries

  "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection".

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• William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

  Marchette Chute

  Christian, War, Adventure

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

  Trina Schart Hyman

  Safe, Things Change, Life Is

  Trina Schart Hyman (1989). “Self-portrait: Trina Schart Hyman”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

  Ai Weiwei

  Voice, Mind, Internet

  "The Bold and the Beautiful". Global Times, November 26, 2009.

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• The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Two, People

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• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Average, Sleepy

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• Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
  With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beach, Science, Long

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

  John Stamos

  Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Drama, Epic

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• She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
  This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

  DJ Drama

  Song, Animal, Looks

  Song: Day Dreaming, 2009

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• We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

  David Richo

  Hero, Character, Loss

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Century, Tales

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• The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Enchantment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Tales, Fairy

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

  January Jones

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

  Simone Elkeles

  Wish, Chemistry, Granted

  "Perfect Chemistry". Book by Simone Elkeles, 2008.

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• There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Lakes, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Romance, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  Laini Taylor

  Belief, Language, Tales

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

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• Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Self, Handsome

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Writing, Self

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