Quotes About Narrative

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

History is written by the winners.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

The historian amputates reality.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.