Mohsin Hamid Quotes

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

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

People are the story they tell themselves.

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

Our stories are the tellers of us.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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.

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!

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

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

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

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

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.

There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.

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.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

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.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

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.