Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2024 Update)
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101. “Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ’ashes.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

102. “The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

— Alain de Botton

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

105. “Stories are equipment for living.”

— Kenneth Burke

106. “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

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

— Hans Christian Andersen

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

112. “Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Harry Styles

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

— Jack London

116. “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

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Francis Chan

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

— Cecelia Ahern

120. “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

121. “We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Neil Gaiman

125. “Stories are medicine.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

126. “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

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Demi Lovato

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Brené Brown

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

— Ira Glass

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

134. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Byron Katie

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

— J.D. Salinger

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

— David Jeremiah

139. “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

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

141. “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

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

— Neil Gaiman

143. “History breaks down into images, not into stories.”

— Walter Benjamin

144. “Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”

— Octavia Butler

145. “Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it.”

— John Green

146. “The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.”

— Terry Pratchett

147. “Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.”

— Dan Millman

148. “God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.”

— Louie Giglio

149. “Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything – we need only listen.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

150. “The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’”

— Pat Conroy