Story Quotes

“Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.”
― John Steinbeck

“He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.”
― Darren Shan, Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare

“The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.”
― Chris d'Lacey, Icefire

“Once upon a time, began the story of you.

Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.

And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.

Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart.”
― J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love

“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?”
― paul hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!"

"Well, that's no different from real life," remarked Elinor gloomily. "You never know if things will turn out well. Just now our own story looks like it's coming to a bad end.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be human. We use stories to order and make sense of our lives, to define who we are, even to construct our realities: this happened, then this happened, then this. I was, I am, I will be. We recount our dreams, narrate our days and organize our memories into stories we tell others and ourselves. As natural-born storytellers, we respond to others’ stories because they are deeply, intimately familiar.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.”
― Eduardo Halfon, The Polish Boxer

“We're all born an empty page.”
― Lauren DeStefano

“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference—by offering
living proof.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether it is ordered and ordained, fixed and fated, or whether it can be missed, avoided, circumvented, passed by; that is the mystery.

If she had not come along the Via Piemonte that day, would it still have happened? If she had come along the Via Piemonte that day, but ten minutes later than she did, would it still have happened? Therein lies the real mystery. And no one ever knows, and no one ever will.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness

“One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.”
― T.A

“He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?”
― Rinsai Rossetti

“It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached.
Kristie Leigh Maguire”
― Vicki M. Taylor, Forever Until We Meet

“The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.”
― Cathryn Louis

“A brief, well-crafted story that is relevant to your topic is one of the most potent ways to maintain the attention of your audience. But the story must be kind. Benjamin Disraeli said: "Never tell unkind stories." Inconsiderate and insensitive stories do not bring grace to those who hear them, and may actually leave the audience dispirited.”
― Bruna Martinuzzi, Presenting with Credibility

“A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.”
― A.R. Voss

“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.”
― Bill Delvaux, Landmarks: Turning Points on Your Journey Toward God

“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.
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― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”
― Steve Maraboli

“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”
― John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“The sleds accelerated quickly as they glided effortlessly over the smooth ice. We had never before experienced such a quick, easy slide. usually we wished we could push ourselves to make our sleds go faster. But not this time. The crystals of ice started flying past at an incredible rate of speed. No longer aware of where my sister and her sled were, all I could see was raw ice whizzing by ten inches under my chin at a rate of speed I never imagined I would experience on a sled. I felt like I was flying!”
― Daniel Boerman, The Flying Farm Boy

“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.”
― Francis M. Nevins, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

“If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.”
― Vinko Vrbanic

“The story is uneven in its progression.”
― ichtys, Superior Cross