Coffins Quote by Anonymous

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

— Zbigniew Herbert

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

— Tim O'Brien

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

— Shakti Gawain

Death was a fiction till love came to reality

— Shubham Joshi

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

— James M. Barrie

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I…

— Jane Yolen

“Fairy tales have happy endings—real life seldom does.”

— I.T. Lucas

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.…

— Wendell Berry

“Breakups and divorces, disappointments and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just practice for the…

— LJ Pemberton

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair…

— Fay Weldon

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

All true stories end in death.

— Matthew Woodring Stover