142 Quotes About Tales

I hope I've retold these stories honestly, but there was still joy and creation in the telling

Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.

Tales and images transcend duality.

A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales,then with the truth, he haunts.

A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth, he then haunts.

All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale told once, it's a series of revisions.

Three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.

He told countless tales, all good, of crocodiles and ichneumons in Egypt, gazelles and ghouls in Persia, elephants and tigers in Burmah, deer and monkeys in Siam, badgers and foxes in China and sorcerers and enchanters everywhere. He spoke of the last two in as matter-of-fact a tone as of any of the others.

Beyond the water the world is dark and the things of the world become hidden. We have heard endless tales about that darkness.