Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As a little girl your mind is filled with snow white, dwarfs, wizards, then you grow up and you realize you’ve got it all… — Rucy Ban Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“LISTEN, don’t believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“All children grow up, all but one. His name is Peter and by now, all the civilized world has heard of him.… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It doesn't mean too much now. But… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“She had a destiny, and it was wonderful, every girl’s dream. Like Sleeping Beauty, awoken from a deep sleep by a charming… — Amber Belldene Copy Share Image
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Death was always a double-edged sword. To him, the man standing before him might have been his enemy, but to someone else,… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“In Muggle fairy tales, magic tends to lie at the root of the hero or heroine’s troubles – the wicked witch has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope .… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For "happy summer days" gone by, And vanish'd summer glory--… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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