Stories Quotes

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

~ Margi Preus

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

~ Sara Sheridan

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

~ Anna Funder

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

~ Heather Anastasiu

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

~ Johnny Rich

The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

~ Sharon Weil

I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down.Sometimes I just survive.But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.That's when the stories show up in me.They find me all the time.They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent.The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first.Maybe they all just merge into one.We'll see, I guess.I'll let you know when I decide.

~ Markus Zusak

Desire never stops. Equilibrium is temporary. The self-revelation is never simple, and it cannot guarantee the hero a satisfying life from that day forward. since a great story is always a living thing, its ending is no more final and certain than any other part of the story.

~ John Truby

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every experience is a book to be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions embedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.

~ Felicia Johnson

Laughter lights up the darkness.

~ A.d. Posey

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

~ Samwise Gamgee

Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

~ Neil Gaiman

Many writers were better before they became famous.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowadays.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I am grateful for the white sheet - all my stories are his.

~ Mladen Đorđević

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

~ A.d. Posey

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

~ A.d. Posey

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

~ A.d. Posey

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

~ A.d. Posey

You’re with you 24/7, you must love you the most.

~ A.d. Posey

Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

~ A.d. Posey

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.

~ A.d. Posey

Everything that is old was once new.

~ A.d. Posey

I’d rather be a fool than afraid.

~ A.d. Posey

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.

~ A.d. Posey

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness.

~ A.d. Posey

You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative.

~ A.d. Posey

Perspective is the key to everything.

~ A.d. Posey

The truth is everything.

~ A.d. Posey

Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.

~ A.d. Posey

Accept nothing. Challenge everything.

~ A.d. Posey

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

~ A.d. Posey

I write because I love. I love because I write.

~ A.d. Posey