Based Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in…

— Anonymous

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

“Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species’ tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect equations and…

— Brad Stone

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

— Stewart O'Nan

“The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brain spill out, making us susceptible…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic…

— Haruki Murakami

“Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly tied together,…

— Sarah Arthur

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time…

— Pat Conroy

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

— Tara Brach

Every tale is not to be believed.

— Aesop