Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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

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

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

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

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

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

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

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.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

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

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

People are the story they tell themselves.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

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.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.