J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

It's good to pass on stories.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

Folktales are real.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

A good story never dies.

We're trying to let people see what their grandfather told them about.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.