Quotes about Narrative
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
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
— GK Chesterton
Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.
— Edith Wharton
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.
— Edith Wharton
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
— Pierre Corneille