Alive Quote by Niall Williams

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

— Joan Didion

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

— Sue Monk Kidd

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We…

— Niall Williams

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we…

— Henri Nouwen

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

— Alan Rickman

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— Diane Setterfield

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

— Nancy Mairs

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more…

— Alan Rickman

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

— Bruce Springsteen

We are the stories we tell ourselves

— Joan Didion