Story Quotes - Page 3

Whatever how much you know,if you don’t know, who you are, in what world you are living, or simply where you are, and from where you came from. Because if you do know, that's completely different story. 18.09.11

VicDo

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

Marcus Sedgwick

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

And now the story begins for the last time.

Daniel H. Wilson

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty.

Sherwood Anderson

If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do. if I lift open the lid now, you’ll be implicated. Is that what you want? You really want to know something I’ve sacrificed so much trying to forget?

Haruki Murakami

Remember:It’s all in your head… all of it.If you don’t like the story, change it.If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them.

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

Some people love their story that much even if it's of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don't know how to stop telling it. Maybe it's about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear—you have to die a little to be reborn, and death comes first, the death of a story, a familiar version of yourself

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

Paul Park

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

Catherynne M. Valente

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.

Paul Park

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

Anne Rice

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because its genre. On the other hand, I’ve also never understood the logic of excusing a work from the need to tell a story worth telling about people worth knowing simply because the author writes pretty language or has some insights to offer.

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

Kat Unda

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach.

Michael Hofmann

Life is a story.

Love? ... It's at the heart of every story.

Jessica Day George

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

Israelmore Ayivor

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales.

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

Debasish Mridha

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.

Christopher Morley

Writing Tip:Don't let the "writing rules" bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story.

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

Jedidiah Jenkins

The more ‘life’ a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.

Tell the fucking story.

Aleksandar Hemon

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Louis de Bernières

There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.

Charles F. Glassman

The seventh reader interrupts you: "Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla.

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet.

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Rashers Tierney

Story to me is life. It’s purpose. We as humans have an the opportunity and obligation to live the most truthful story ever told, unfortunately so few ever live truthfully. They don’t follow their dreams and live lives filled with regrets and “what ifs”. I make it my purpose to pursue the dreams and life that I want. It’s very hard, but at the end of the day, when people read the story of my life, they will say, “He was true to himself”.

Aaron Denius Garcia

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Robert Macfarlane

Just as the way sun is behind the moon’s light reflection, I know that everything which comes into my life, or every thing I notice, I see, I hear, has a story behind it. And that story connects it to me. So I become curious to know these back stories. And the more I know them, the more I know myself, each time in a different way.

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends—an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels—and it is that—comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there.

You can tell your story any way you damn well please.Its your solo.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

Billy Marshall-Stoneking

He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle.

Suzette R. Hinton

There’s always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently.

It is perhaps necessary for something dear to be lost.”“Why?”“Perhaps it is necessary to the making of a story. A story after all is a way of remembering love.

No story is complete until it is written.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in-and why should any of us have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing-the only work you can do convincingly-is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

Where does the story end? That's what it's all about. It's what we all want to know.

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