#tales

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#love #tales-of-love-and-marriage #life

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dreaming #dreams #fairy-tales #inkheart #inspirational

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#fantasy

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#fairy-tales

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#believe #fairy #fairy tales #half #how

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught. ↗

— Pat Brown

#being #brought #business #caught #famous

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#fairytales #got #laugh #long #make

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#amazing #father #felt #footnote #his

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales