A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

Burna Boy

Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in for everybody, so actions take on fairytale significance. And the writing has to be pared down to represent people as types, too.

Guy Maddin

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Friedrich Nietzsche

She tasted of fairytales

Laini Taylor

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Ai Weiwei

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

Robert Lepage

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

Carrie Underwood

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Todrick Hall

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

Emily Blunt

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Jamie Dornan

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Amos Oz

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

Helena Bonham Carter

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.