Stories Quotes - Page 9

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.

Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

Sense how
Even the smooth stones ache
With stories of their own
In the shuddering light of day.

I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger of oblivion. If they are saved, often it is by the merest chance. And that chance may well depend upon one individual with a treasure-story bent and a retentive memory.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.