Tales Quotes

• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Life, Inspiring, Famous Inspirational

  Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Hans Christian Andersen (1969). “A visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen”

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

  Danielle Steel

  Angel, Magic, Literature

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• Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

  Rumi

  Sadness, Yesterday Is Gone, Water

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• When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

  Lewis Carroll

  Here I Am, Wonderland, Fairy Tale

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Fairy Tale

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• I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

  Beverly Cleary

  Library, Fairy Tale, Reader

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Real, Imagination, Interesting

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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• I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

  Mike Myers

  Mother, Memories, Character

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

  Joe Wright

  Sweet, Dark, Overcoming

  Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. March 22, 2011.

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• If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Ideas, Nurse

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• Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Dragons

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

  Leo Rosten

  Children, Simple, Play

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• I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Love You, Giving

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• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

  Michael Bergin

  Missing You, Believe, Fairy Stories

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  Eazy-E

  Kids, Reality, Care

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Children

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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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• 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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