Alive Quote by Douglas Coupland

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

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without…

— Charles de Lint

...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding…

— David Abram

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories…

— Shekhar Kapur

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs,…

— Thomas Berry

“It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

— Diane Setterfield

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Shekhar Kapur

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way…

— Jeanette Winterson

Human beings cannot live without stories.

— Ann Douglas