Stories Quotes

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

~ Salley Vickers

The principles of storytelling are immutable, explaining why we see shards of ourselves in other people’s stories. All enduring stories predicate its themes upon humankind’s ability to exercise free will. Without a character’s ability to make choices of how to act, there can be no story. In absence of free will, there is no humanity. Only after God evicted them from the Garden of Eden, could Adam and Eve experience what it means to be human.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet. ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.

~ Susan J. Tweit

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

~ Michael J. Cohen

He is only one of a million no, a billion stories you could tell about the living beings on just this side of the mountain. The fact is that there are more stories in the space of a single second, in a single square foot of dirt and air and water, then we could tell in a hundred years. The word amazing isn't much of a word for how amazing it is. The fact is that there are more stories in the world than there are fish in the sea or birds in the air or lies among politicians. You could be sad at how many stories go untold, but you could also be delighted at how many stories we catch and share in delight and wonder and astonishment and illumination and sometimes even epiphany.

~ Brian Doyle

We encounter truth within.

~ A.d. Posey

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

~ A.d. Posey

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

~ A.d. Posey

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

~ A.d. Posey

Love is the answer.

~ A.d. Posey

Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.

~ A.d. Posey

Find peace in knowing.

~ A.d. Posey

Somethings worth having defy logic. They come with obstacles, challenges, battles and long periods of wandering in the dark. Your path won't make sense to your family or friends. People will weigh in with their life rules and fears, but in the end it is your life. That pull you feel is real and often your intuition. It nags at you everyday. Follow it for as far as it takes you because life is too short to dwell on indecision, while you forget to live. Take a chance because if you have a good heart God isn't going to abandon you. He will travel wherever you need to go, in order to find the missing pieces of your soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

~ Gina Barreca

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

~ Sanhita Baruah

You ought to the read stories of how people have endured worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We write to give strength to our soul and to inspire spirit of other souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great souls encouraged us to be great.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

~ David Byrne

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

~ Prairie Empire

No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In the stories you tell and the stories you see. Find passion everywhere, and share it widely. Don't narrow it down to one thin line.

~ David Levithan

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

~ Stephen R. Lawhead

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

~ Cassandra Clare

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

~ A.d. Posey

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life should reflect your heart.

~ A.d. Posey

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

~ A.d. Posey

Create from the heart.

~ A.d. Posey

Pour your heart onto the page.

~ A.d. Posey

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

~ Sanober Khan

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

~ John Connolly

We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.

~ Brian Wicker

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

~ Laini Taylor

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

~ M. Robert Randolph

I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “genre” and “mainstream” for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general–over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves–they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency “the narrative fallacy” doesn’t mean it doesn’t also touch upon some aspect of the truth.Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.

~ Ken Liu

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

~ Criss Jami

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita