Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 2

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

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!

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

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

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.