Top 389 Narratives Quotes & Sayings

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.

Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when Cunégonde recounts her story.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives.

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.

We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

Narratives are very important to me.

My shows are not narratives.

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.

Continuing to push narratives that are progressive and that are coming from a place of love and acceptance is so important.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

I'm interested in representation that falls outside of what would be socially appropriate, or acceptable, or beautiful. The world is going through a very fundamentalist moment. You have right-wing politics and misogyny and religion employed together everywhere - here in the US, with issues like abortion. Religion is a very fraught and complicated topic, but at the same time, like all grand historical narratives, there is a potential for challenging, or rethinking the kinds of subjectivities that these meta-narratives produce.

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.