Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

The Mountain Story

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mal denen şeye kendi varlığımız ya da halkın varlığı gibi tuhaf bir ad koymuşuz. Üstelik varlığını kaybetmek insanlar arasında ayıp ve budalalık sayılmış.

Matryona's House And Other Stories

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

The Night Gardener

For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.

New and Selected Poems

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

The Nick Adams Stories

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Our Lady of the Circus

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Lean Branding

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

Lanark County Chronicle

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

Love Among the Chickens

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Lost Everything

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

The Leftovers

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The Little Minister

Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.” That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

Live for Me

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

A Lion Among Men

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

Landline

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Life of Pi