Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.
John Hodgman
Related Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. SOURCE UNKNOWN Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ANON. Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W... RACHEL NAOMI REMEN I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec... MARY GAITSKILL Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, act... KATE FORSYTH All of us are in in shock, ... This is a senseless and unexplainable act that goes beyond the pale. ... GAVIN NEWSOM What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to
overlook what does not conne... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ... CHARLES DE LINT Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life go... FEDERICA MOGHERINI It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke. CAMERON CONAWAY The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is u... JIM ROHN We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian storie... YAHOO SERIOUS What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might no... INA MAY GASKIN Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes th... ARUNDHATI ROY My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head ... AARON DOUGLAS Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their ... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on en... BILL WALTON We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It ... WILLIAM KITTREDGE The beauty of life is that hope abounds. Hey, life goes on. Make the best of what you've got. JANET RAY Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel... NATHAN MYHRVOLD Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr... ALBERT EINSTEIN Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr... ALBERT EINSTEIN Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of pat... STEPHEN DECATUR We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No... CHARLES DE LINT Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or e... THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on... RAY BRADBURY Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. JUDY BLUME All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. LEO TOLSTOY The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a... NICHOLAS SPARKS It makes sense to do it this way. Fuel exchange goes on all the time. COLIN MCCLELLAND Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m... KRYSTLE HORTON Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scra... ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ... RAY BRADBURY My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during th... RAY BRADBURY To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native Ameri... RICHARD KING Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a... STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi... PHILIP PULLMAN Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to o... JULIANNA BAGGOTT What goes around, comes around. For years it was all about us. Now it's all about them. GENE NAKAMURA Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies... MARK BURNETT What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA ANGELIS How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l... JULIAN BARNES So they sitting on their time bombNow I know the time has comeTelling you what goes up is coming on ... DAMIAN MARLEY The scale of change is much smaller than what goes on during the critical period of development, but... ELLY NEDIVI She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie... MEAGAN SPOONER The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject.... CHARLES PLATT Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. MARY ANN SHAFFER What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard a... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The storyteller's claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people... FREDERICK BUECHNER Trying to make sense of what makes no sense can render you senseless. Let it go. SANJO JENDAYI You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i... MAJEL BARRETT There's always a minor character in stories who make the biggest sacrifices when sadly, their effort... J C A ROWE We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ... PATRICIA HAMPL History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The tr... PAUL MURRAY Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out ... BRANDON GARIC NOTCH Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua... NANCY KRESS Coach Fox does a good job of keeping us focused on what goes on in here. We don't focus on what goes... MARLON MCCREE Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered... ASHWIN SANGHI Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as i... STEPHEN KING a lot of shit happens , then we realise that life is so fucking unfair .. but guess what ? life stil... LOOKA AD What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want th... JESSICA ABEL I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in th... SUZANNE FARRELL People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t... SAVI SHARMA I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. STEPHEN R. COVEY Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right ... JOHN COREY WHALEY I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what... FRANK STELLA We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and ... DONALD MILLER We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire loc... DOUG ADAMS That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my gr... EMILIE AUTUMN You know... we all have stories. We all have unique experiences that make each and everyone of us di... G. BRIAN BENSON Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our si... JOAN D. VINGE So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get sha... JOHN MARSDEN Sometimes it is easy going.Sometimes it is too difficult but in every situation. Life Goes On! Eithe... IQBAL HUSSAIN Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but... FRANS DE WAAL Time goes by, life goes on, and all I can think of is why you're gone DIRTY DANCING Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we ... ROBIN CHASE ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap... RABIH ALAMEDDINE He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he ... GREG APPLETON What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be... MARK MOSSA Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les... TIM O'BRIEN As the game goes on, I usually get stronger and more comfortable and have a better feel for what to ... RICKY WILLIAMS Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward. NINA SANKOVITCH In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflo... CRISS JAMI IVGID is central to what goes on in this community. It makes sense to come to them to ask for help i... CARL HASTY In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't w... CARL SANDBURG It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make p... FRANCOIS HOUGAARD That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capabl... SAM RAIMI If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of... DANIEL TAMMET The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s... ALDOUS HUXLEY The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we o... ALARIC HUTCHINSON I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most ch... CHAD LOWE Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ... COLUM MCCANN When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encycloped... SARAH KAY
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