Course of life Quote by NZ Kaminsky

“We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full…

— Djuna Barnes

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming

“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories wherever they…

— C. Christopher Smith

“We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.”

— Sarah Cross

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder…

— Joan Didion

“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals…

— Mark Slouka

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and…

— Dawna Markova

“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath.…

— Pat Conroy

“A story gives people some type of a handhold through their lives. They need to know that what they're doing now has a middle…

— Anonymous

“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand…

— William Kittredge

“The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.”

— Vishwas Mudagal