Storytelling Quote by John Balkh

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my…

— Rumi

“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere…

— Jerry Stahl

“Stories take on a life of their own, don't they? They're creatures carried gently by word and voice, but never quite bound. Long after…

— Shae Ford

“I can hardly open my mouth to speak without feeling as though the sea burst its dams and overflowed. How then shall I express…

— Daniel Chanan Matt

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

— Nadia Murad

“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your eye off…

— Mark Lawrence

“There’s a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling that when you tell a story, when you give out a story, it is no…

— Ishmael Beah

“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite your seeming…

— Nidhie Sharma

“In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts.…

— Carolyn Elliott

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

— Rumi