Samuel Beckett Quotes

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

To be human is to be in a story.

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

People like to see their lives mythologized in some way.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Everyone's story matters.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.