Stories Quotes

There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

~ Samuel Beckett

The stories we are destined to tell find us.

~ Nidhie Sharma

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

~ Brent M. Jones

When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite your seeming inability to tell it, know this..the story has chosen you and You are ready, so tell it or it’ll haunt you to the end of your days. Characters too! They will find you, drop anchor and before you know, they will speak through you, shaping their own narrative, their own unique destiny. Let go and allow them. You have no option but to be a channel for them. This joy of surrender can only be felt… never truly explained.

~ Nidhie Sharma

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

~ Nidhie Sharma

Because stories are how we share our lives and what we truly mourn when they are lost. Stories are what connect us to our past and carry us to our future. They are what we cherish and what we remember.

~ Grace Lin

I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.

~ P.b. Mcilrath

I loved those eyes , even though they never saw my pain ,I loved those ears , even though they heard my stories

~ Ratish Edwards

oYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

~ Marty Rubin

You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

~ Marty Rubin

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

~ Kirby Larson

Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we respond to the spark of humanness within ourselves that seeks to come out in the light and greet the world. When we tell the stories of our lives, we give voice to people bereft of speech, we make the persons whom we love or loved immortal, and we pass along our familiarity with the natural and physical world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Enzo thought ends were disappointing. He said when you were really immersed in a story, you started to have expectations. And the end was never as great as you imagined it could have been. Even though I mostly agreed with him, I couldn't help wanting to know everything. I was always looking for more.

~ Chelsea Sedoti

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

~ Haruki Murakami

the stories that produced [Trump] were always contested. There were always other stories, ones that insisted that money is not what’s valuable, and that all of our fates are intertwined with one another and with the health of the natural world… while Trump is the logical culmination of the current neoliberal system, the current neoliberal system is not the only logical culmination of the human story

~ Naomi Klein

Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

~ Patti Callahan Henry

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

~ Hermann Hesse

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

~ Anne Lamott

They say there are three kinds of people in the world: those who listen to stories, those who tell them, and those who make them.

~ Claire Fayers

In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, is part of our most primitive survival wiring. Mean making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.

~ Brené Brown

Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.

~ Bilal Tanweer

Bedtime storiesEventide RhapsodiesAnthologies of MemoryPlease enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed

~ Erin Morgenstern

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

~ Bilal Tanweer

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: Once upon a time. An incantation.

~ Jennifer Mcmahon

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.

~ Eudora Welty

And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.

~ John Steinbeck

Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...

~ Cj Redwine

Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.

~ Emory R. Frie

Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!

~ Patrick Ness

But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of bone and substance and comedy there is only a river of lies, and sweet and delicious ones they are, too. We are the gatherers, the shepherds, the farmers of stories. We wander widely and look for them and gather them and harvest them and share them as food. It is a craft as necessary and nutritious as any other, and if you are going to be good at it you must double your humility and triple your curiosity and quadruple your ability to listen.

~ Brian Doyle

If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.

~ David Vann

Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People intrigue me. Life intrigues me. I see a story behind every pair of eyes I meet, history in every voice. I'll see someone wearing a smile and wonder what put it there. Words allow me to immerse myself in a whole other world. I get to become a different person.

~ Nicola Haken

Storytelling still matters in the digital age, because commencing in adolescences and continuing through adulthood, people receive training in using stories to describe the human contestants, organize the facts, communicate the moral message behind the messy human conflict, evaluate competing ethical issues, and render a final value judgment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and tragedies, fools and geniuses. What the Greeks started the rest of the world will continue to build upon. The old stories will continue to explicate where we came from, while the new stories will illuminate in what direction humankind trends. The collection of future stories of humanity will add to the cumulative library of stories that past writers told, an anthology of collaborative stories will shed light upon the singleness of the human spirit in its aspirations, powers, vicissitudes, and wisdom.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster