Quotes About Fable

If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point.

For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress. Myron

he must cook and eat the child.

she is said to have possessed golden sandals that carried her over water and land

Los mitos y los sueños proceden del mismo lugar... Un mito es el sueño de una sociedad.» Joseph Campbell

Si una cosa he aprendido, sin duda, es que la vida no es un cuento.

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened.

Las leyendas sólo sobreviven vistas de lejos.

Ali Baba destroyed a dream!!!

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

The Fable story hinted at a dramatic time before 'Fable 1' when the Guild was founded, this would be a perfect setting for 'Fable 4.'

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

JARAK dan Adam turun di hutan-hutan mengabur dalam dongengan dan kita tiba-tiba di sini tengadah ke langit; kosong sepi

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.