Best Storytelling Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .”

“Your message might reach the ears of the audience, barely scratch the surface of their minds, and never get close to their hearts—to what they care about.”

“What will other people think? It reflects the human yearning for belonging versus the imagined harsh reactions of the world. But in reality, people care much less than you think, and that’s the naked truth.”

“Speak your truth and share your story, for you never know the magic that awaits on the other side of authenticity and vulnerability.”

“Hope is like a beacon in the darkness. It stands like a lighthouse, guiding lost ships toward safe shores.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

“Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.”

“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.”

“Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.”

“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.”

“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”

“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with. It’s what writers do. Once you open your mouth, you are moving away from the truth of things. According to neuroscience. The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events. Underwater. Forever.”

“But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.”

“The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,”

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

“Time is not a straight line. It is a conversation between memory and imagination.”

“People don’t remember data — they remember stories. And the right story can change someone’s financial life.”

“Life does not ask who is ready; it simply calls, and only the awake respond".”

“There are stories we tell to teach, and others whose horror outweighs their usefulness, so we bury them in the dust of the past, sparing those who come after their weight.” — The Hunter”

“All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”

“✨ “Between logic and longing lies the heart’s truest memory — the kind that even time cannot erase.”

“✨ “Stories are more than words — they’re pieces of who we are.”

“Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.”