Fairy tales Quote by Isobelle Carmody Download Open image ““Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings”” — Isobelle Carmody ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairy tales Fairy-tales-retold Foolish people Happy ending Happy endings
“There is no such thing as a happy ending, but there are endings with happy people” — Becos Mushenkye Copy Share Image
“How can someone struggle for a happy ending… If they don't believe in one.” — Bharat Budhani Copy Share Image
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The happy endings in books don´t exist in real life, in real life there area always the losers.” — Sampo Miettinen Copy Share Image
“Who says happy endings are only in fairy tales? Pray, believe and wait patiently on God and He will make a fairy tale out… — Simone Da Costa Copy Share Image
“That is, while many people prefer a happy ending (a classic comedy), sometimes a message can be communicated more powerfully by a classic tragedy.” — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.” — S.L.J. Shortt Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.” – Aza Holmes, page 276” — John Green Copy Share
“The problem with happy endings, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share
The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them,… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share
“And, for a moment, doubt flickered in me, but then I banished it, for surely nothing required courage so much as love, and I… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so much pleasure as the sleep that followed it. She especially was affected. Whenever she stayed overnight in her rented room (which quickly became only an alibi for Tomas), she was unable to fall asleep; in his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams. From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he is a tragic hero, he's our fucking Gatsby, and he lived for his fish and he has to die for his fish. He would never let my fake authority, condoning his abandonment, making up rules about… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share
“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we have another… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like George Macdonald 's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats , and Sylvia Townsend Warner 's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin . (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until… — Terri Windling Copy Share
