Mary Karr Quotes

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.

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

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.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

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.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

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

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

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

It took me a long time to grow up.

For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

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

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'