Embodiment Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Embodiment Precise Stories Wraith
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life’s big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery through practice,… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They’re based in fact, even if mundanes think they’re myth. Shadowhunters have a saying: all the stories are true.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing,… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human… — Froma Harrop Copy Share Image
The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Instead of "I love you," it would be better to say "I am love-I am the embodiment of Pure Love." Remove the I and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young… — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
