Quotes about Narrative
I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.
— Max Lucado
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?
— Donald Miller
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.
— Donald Miller
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
— Walt Whitman
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
— George Bernard Shaw
History is a story written by the finger of God.
— CS Lewis
Things look different when history is seen as His-story.
— Peter Kreeft
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
— Samuel Johnson
The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
— Elie Wiesel
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
— Jack Kerouac
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
— Joseph Campbell