Eduardo Galeano Quotes

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

We are the only animal that tells stories.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

There is no story that is not true.

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

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

To survive, you must tell stories.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

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

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

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

We are creatures of story.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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

All the truth in the world is held in stories.