Quotes About Story

Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.

Behind every purpose, there's a reason, behind every reason, there's a story, behind every story, there's a dance... ready to set in motion

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls

You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.

But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.

Acaso es culpa mía haber nacido para ser heroína? Todo el mundo representa el papel que se le ha sido asignado, fin del cuento.

don't want you anywhere near this story. It's too dangerous. I don't get why you and the other Narrators don't want this story to be told. Draculaura and Frankie will do whatever they're going to do whether we narrate it or not.

Sometimes legends can be true.

I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I know my own story is understanding our singleness that I am destined to move my body and time into the body-time the story of Others.

The weapon made me think of the Bible story I had been studying. "Wake up, Deborah! . . . Arise, O Barak

Your story is a divine weapon that has the power to defeat the devil.

Like the spine of a good book, scars, by their very nature, imply there's a story to tell. They represent a wrinkle in time in which a person's life is changed forever, and they serve as permanent reminders of an incident that, in one way or another, has made a lasting impression on one's life.

Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the courage, and the hope that eventually changed the world.–Middle Shelf : Cool Reads for Kids magazine

Elisandra's lips moved in a silent prayer of gratitude. Color actually washed across her face. That was bad; that was actually terrible; but there had been a hero, nonetheless, some mercy shown, and that made the story more bearable.

The event had not even existed until I'd heard the story. It happened this way for each of us, one by one, across the island, a structure suddenly exploding onto the placid empty plain of our history.

I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.

Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.