31 Stories And Quotes

Are you in search of inspiration, wisdom, or perhaps a touch of motivation? Look no further! We've meticulously gathered a collection of the top 31 stories and quotes that promise to enlighten, uplift, and resonate with readers from all walks of life. These gems are not only thought-provoking but also heartwarming, offering timeless lessons and insights. Whether you're seeking a spark to start your day, a reflective pause, or a glimmer of positivity, this handpicked selection has something special for everyone. Dive in and let these stories and quotes inspire you to see the world through a brighter lens.

1. “a story is ready when it falls from your face” - steve aylett

2. “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” - Haruki Murakami

3. “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” - Tim O'Brien

4. “But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?” - Wally Lamb

5. “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.” - Muriel Rukeyser

6. “There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” - J.K. Rowling

7. “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” - Ben Okri

8. “Every story needs to be worth telling.” - Vera Nazarian

9. “What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.” - Marian Keyes

10. “Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.” - Marisha Pessl

11. “Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.” - Cornelia Funke

12. “According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.” - Jincy Willett

13. “Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” - Jess C. Scott

14. “My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.” - Anonymous

15. “لا أعرف لم تمسكت بك كل تلك الفترة، كان ذلك القصر الأفلاطوني معقل أفكاري التي صغتها قصائد عشق وترانيم أشواق اغتيلت قبل أن تكمل سنوات طفولتها الأولى.” - لطيفة الحاج

16. “The more bleach in the bedsheets, the greater Chastity's impulse to roll around in them. A party would be thrown, she decided, the kind that would tell a small story in the contents of the dustpan the next morning. Detached sequins and mint leaves muddled by high heels, shrimp tales mixed in with a few shards of broken glass, a crust of bread. She rolled in her bleached sheets until they wrapped around her like a storm, and she fell asleep in the eye of it.” - Amelia Gray

17. “For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.” - Emma Donoghue

18. “I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.” - Katherine Applegate

19. “There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.” - Helen Humphreys

20. “We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.” - Donald Miller

21. “Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.” - Jennifer Donnelly

22. “Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.” - Arundhati Roy

23. “When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.” - Michel de Certeau

24. “Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.” - James Robertson

25. “The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.” - Jonathan Rosen

26. “A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.” - Deanna Vasquez

27. “Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch against the window at night, the steady insistence of it is comforting. She has stories without beginnings, stories that trail off, stories that crisscross and contradict and dead end.Toy is the star of her stories. Events orbit her like a constellation.” - Erica Lorraine Scheidt

28. “Have I heard all the stories I need to hear?" she asked, stupidly. But he answered as if it were a good question."No, you haven't. But you don't have time to hear any more from me. So listen for stories wherever you go. It won't always be someone telling them; sometimes they come in other ways. And Summer, when you tell yourself stories, make them true. And make them surprising. That's how you will know they might be true.” - Katherine Catmull

29. “...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...” - John Geddes

30. “You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.” - C.S. Lewis

31. “Literature is the real life of imaginary people.” - Stefanos Livos