Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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351. “For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”

— Steven Erikson

352. “Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn’t have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”

— Sandra Brown

353. “It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

— Haruki Murakami

354. “When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.”

— Byron Katie

355. “Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.”

— Mason Cooley

356. “People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.”

— Brandon Sanderson

357. “The short story is the literature of the nomad.”

— John Cheever

358. “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”

— Paul Auster

359. “Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

— Margaret Thatcher

360. “Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”

— Neil Gaiman

361. “Don’t ever let anyone else write your story for you.”

— Nick Carter

362. “The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.”

— Christopher Hitchens

363. “I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.”

— Michael Bergin

364. “There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.”

— Rick Warren

365. “You can use your story, or your story can use you.”

— Tony Robbins

366. “The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.”

— Louis Tomlinson

367. “There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was ‘the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.’”

— C. S. Lewis

368. “Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.”

— Byron Katie

369. “The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

— Aravind Adiga

370. “Don’t sell your story, just tell your story.”

— J.J. Abrams

371. “I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.”

— Amy Tan

372. “People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.”

— Donald Miller

373. “What’s important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts.”

— Pat Conroy

374. “The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.”

— C.G. Jung

375. “Death steals everything except our stories.”

— Jim Harrison

376. “Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, “I am ruined” is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. “I have 50 cents left in my bank account” is a fact.”

— Eckhart Tolle

377. “The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”

— John Eldredge

378. “Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

— Stephen King

379. “Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn’t have a happy ending – but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”

— Stephenie Meyer

380. “Trust me, I’m telling you stories.”

— Jeanette Winterson

381. “Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.”

— Maeve Binchy

382. “He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

383. “I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.”

— Yann Martel

384. “What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.”

— Muhammad Ali

385. “The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.”

— Diane Arbus

386. “The fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

387. “Every doorway, every intersection has a story.”

— Katherine Dunn

388. “This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

389. “Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

— Brené Brown

390. “A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

391. “This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.”

— Ben Okri

392. “Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.”

— Bruce Springsteen

393. “While they’d be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.”

— Johnny Depp

394. “Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.”

— Ben Harper

395. “People who understand everything get no stories.”

— Bertolt Brecht

396. “You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

397. “Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it – the Dutchess.”

— Lewis Carroll

398. “There’s no good story without romance.”

— Stephenie Meyer

399. “I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.”

— Lana Del Rey

400. “I may do some good before I am dead – be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

— Thomas Hardy