Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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101. “The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.”

— John le Carré

102. “Stories are medicine.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

103. “There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”

— Stephen King

104. “That’s what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.”

— Haruki Murakami

105. “Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.”

— Donald Miller

106. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

107. “We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.”

— Tony Robbins

108. “Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.”

— Rumi

109. “Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ’ashes.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

110. “Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”

— Neil Gaiman

111. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

— Chinua Achebe

112. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”

— Ira Glass

113. “Stories are equipment for living.”

— Kenneth Burke

114. “Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. “But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom

116. “A human life is a story told by God.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

117. “Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”

— Salman Rushdie

118. “Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.”

— Hayley Williams

119. “The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.”

— John Eldredge

120. “And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”

— Robert Frost

121. “In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

122. “Every story you tell is your own story.”

— Joseph Campbell

123. “The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.”

— Jack London

124. “Written in these walls are the stories that I can’t explain.”

— Harry Styles

125. “Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

— Sylvia Plath

126. “I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”

— Walt Disney

127. “Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.”

— Francis Chan

128. “Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.”

— Cecelia Ahern

129. “Any work of art must first of all tell a story.”

— Robert Frost

130. “The story is not in the plot but in the telling.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

131. “Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we’re human.”

— Neil Gaiman

132. “Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”

— Neil Gaiman

133. “We owe it to each other to tell stories.”

— Neil Gaiman

134. “I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

— Neil Gaiman

135. “Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.”

— Robin S. Sharma

136. “Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.”

— Demi Lovato

137. “The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

138. “Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.”

— Brené Brown

139. “The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

140. “The last story: God is everything, God is good.”

— Byron Katie

141. “There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.”

— Douglas Adams

142. “Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.”

— Ben Okri

143. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

— J.D. Salinger

144. “It’s time to begin righting the story of your life.”

— David Jeremiah

145. “I’m scared. I’m excited. I’m ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.”

— Katy Perry

146. “There is no story unless you’ve written it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

147. “But there’s one thing I’m sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

— Stephen King

148. “The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

149. “I am primarily a loner. I don’t go to clubs. I don’t hang out with people. I don’t know many people. It’s just the way it ended up. It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.”

— Henry Rollins

150. “The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

— Neil Gaiman