Fairy Story Quotes

15 Fairy Story quotes by 11 unique authors

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry… — Stephen Hawking
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every… — Diana Wynne Jones
Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light — John Lennox
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:… — Clarence Day
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. — Stephen Hawking
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.… — John Fowles
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers;… — Stephen Hawking

Who Wrote These Fairy Story Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 15 Fairy Story Quotes as follows: