Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

People are the story they tell themselves.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

We don't know our own story.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.