Bears Quote by Anonymous

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

— Cathleen Schine

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but…

— Clive Barker

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

— Katherine Center

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

— Helen Dunmore

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left…

— Clive Barker

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

— Rachel Cusk

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

— Frank Delaney

I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why…

— Ethan Hawke

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this…

— Philippa Perry

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown…

— H. P. Lovecraft