Fairytale Quotes

• If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

  Danielle Steel

  Angel, Magic, Literature

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Honesty, Reading, Happy Girl

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• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, God, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

  Rashida Jones

  Thinking, Leaving, Adults

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• The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

  W. H. Auden

  Angel, Way, Fairy Tale

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• I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  Rachel McAdams

  Kids, Thinking, Life Is

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• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

  Sharon Tate

  Alaska, Glasses, Rose

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

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

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• There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lessons, Fairy Tale, Beast

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• In the forest of primeval
  A school for Good and Evil
  Twin towers like two heads
  One for the pure
  And one for the wicked
  Try to escape you'll always fail,
  The only way out is
  Through a fairytale.

  Soman Chainani

  School, Two, Evil

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• It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

  Taylor Swift

  Reality, Heartbreaking, World

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

  Max Luthi

  Fairy Tale, Realistic, Tales

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• Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

  Walt Disney

  Glasses, Entrepreneur, Cartoon

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• A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Princess, Reality, Vices

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• I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

  Regina Spektor

  Stories, Love Story, Myth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

  Rebecca Loos

  Giving, Perfect, Trying

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• I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

  Lotte Reiniger

  Funny, Truth, Humorous

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• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

  Juliet Marillier

  Children, Thinking, Style

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• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Christian, Jobs, Classic

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• I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, England

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