Story Of Life Quotes

“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I wish to create a piece of work that produces a permanent mark in the record book of human existence. I also write to insulate myself from leading a meaningless life. Awareness of an inescapable mortality urges me to write at a frantic pace, in a hysterical attempt to assign a purpose to my life by creating something external that endures.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Relationships are a gift from God. One cannot arrange what is not written in Heaven. Both people must feel the spark of God which ignites the love and says, “Come this way, I have a good story for you.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“The divine self is the author of our life story, but without sufficient spiritual awareness the human self tends to rearrange the plot.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Life for the artist and all humanity is a soulful objet d’art full of hope, promise, expectation, romance, love, and affection.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Our story is the same but our history is not the same”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“That is the story of life after all, isn't it? Killing time until time kills you. Pretty desolate if one thinks about it. Well, let's collect memories, lots and lots of them, all before we might realise that our lives were just a shimmer!”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain and absent knowledge of the inevitability of our death would result in our brief existence devoid of any note of sincerity and our lives ending without an apt punctuation mark.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work might assist other people endure their own heartaches and appreciate more deeply the profundity of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential awe for the transcendental pathos of life, the small moments of happiness interspersed between stints of loneliness, sorrow, and hardship imbued in human life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Assuming that external physical causes do not entirely proscribe the outcome of our life journey, we have some say in not only what we do, but also in determining what situations we find ourselves needing to respond, and a combination of our conscious and unconscious responses continue to shape our being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Human beings construct their individual life stories by navigating a complex network of recursive natural structures that guide and shape human behavior. Akin to a revolving top spinning on its axis, an inexhaustible number of natural responses are available to a person when conducting a walkabout in a chaotic world. A mature person comprehends that there are many ways to conduct their lives, appreciates the richness and complexities of alternative ways of life, and makes conscious decisions pertaining to what course of behavior will provide them with personal bliss.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It has been suggested that each person lives hermetically sealed within his or her self-perpetuated myths. Scholars postulate that we tell ourselves stories to make sense of our lives. We begin exploration of the self with the experience of failed transcendence. Philosophy originates from the experience of disappointment. Our failures lead us to discoveries. At birth, we know very little, almost nothing; all knowledge instigate from the experience and recognition of our limitations. With the uncertainty that surrounds our existence in the universe, perhaps we must create ourselves. Perchance we seek self-exploration when the myths that we once operated under no longer work. Perhaps we undergo self-analysis only when a coalescence of the past, the present, and the future betrays our current myth-making. Perhaps at such times when failure reigns center court, our survival instinct urges us to create a new story-line.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain, and justify our failures.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Objectively hammering out a grim list of chronological facts with a dispassionate voice is a Scribner’s task; writing the story of a person’s own life calls for one to see the icon that lies behind deluge of facts. No raw truths will ever be discerned must less shared by the storyteller to an audience of soul brothers in absence of the author’s resolute effort to shape the pliable clay of human discord, anguish, and incomprehensible wanting into a decipherable fable while aiming to distill moral truths. There can be no story told without psychological investigation. Storytelling includes granting oneself leave to engage in subjective digressions, selection, and prioritizing. We only find important parts of our self, if we engross in thoughtful rumination, explication, and analysis. We cannot make sense of what we discover in absence of attempted identification and positing resolution of conflicts that ongoing quarrels encumbers our conceptual inventory with stabs of guilt and slices of self-loathing. The best told stories lead to therapeutic application of liberal dosages of a healing balm spiced with strokes of thematic juxtapositions and catholic combinations.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Storytelling is an imperfect methodology to provide a true accounting to a multiplicity of bilateral and three-dimensional interactions. Language cannot reach every recess of the mind, it cannot document every emotional chord, and it cannot splice the discordant pieces within us. Each story by a writer represents the sanitized accounting of the mind’s depictions. Try as one might, employing a panoply of traditional technique or other slick tools of modernist stage craft, it is impossible to separate the teller from the telling any more than one can distinguish the author from their doppelganger writer’s voice.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A good story is both one hundred percent true and one hundred percent false. A good story uses small lies to take a stab at piercing larger truths. An overstatement and understatement are part of writer’s craft; each standing alone is an untruth. An understatement might be used as an attempt at humor, just as an overstatement might be used to probe a truth that lies beyond the exact retelling of who, what, when, and where style employed in police report writing. Even writing biography, autobiography, memoir, and personal essays that studiously and relentless adheres to established facts can distort the truth. Faithful adherence to stringing rote facts together omits many aspects of both the subject and the operable social, cultural, and political environment that stages human interaction, contest, conflict, drama, and strife.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We don't have to stay in a repeating bad story, We can pick up a new book which is better and happier, just by putting the other book down.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“Many modern movies premise the action upon themes identified in ancient myths. Americans are still attracted to the thematic urgency of ancient lore. Despite the advances made by scientist and America’s technological revolution, the universal questions that haunt human beings’ quietude remain unchanged. The subjects that interest us as a people provide useful instructions pertaining how to live. Do we choose the myths that we live by? Do we sort through a bin of past events and select telling stories that we wish to use to define our existence? Do we modify or eliminate handpicked memories that do not fit the fable that we nominate to define our walk through life?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A story has a vital starting point, a centric dynamism, and centrifugal force that propel its nerve impulses outward.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The flexible transition from story to history and from subsistency to sufficiency can smilingly ‘collide’ with the poor thus elevating his narrative from poverty to property.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“There is a story within all of us that we want to tell one day.”
― Avijeet Das

“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear to be always smiling.

When you look at her mouth you feel she looks sad, melancholic, and hostile. But when you look at her eyes you feel she is happy and cheerful.

Leonardo perfected the "sfumato technique," which translated literally from Italian means "vanished or evaporated." He created imperceptible transitions between light and shade, and sometimes between colors.

"Why the Silhouette?" appears as a simple story of a few individuals, but when you look at it from a distance, it appears to show you the philosophy of life.

I have tried to create imperceptible transitions between light and darkness and sometimes between colors.

Hope you see the illusion in "Why the Silhouette?”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“a mystery, unfathomable,
a juice, undrinkable,
a story, unwritable,
life.”
― Komal Paudyal

“Each leaf tells us a story. The story of its struggle. The story of the storms that it faces in life.”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“যিনি হারিয়েছেন তিনি আজ অন্ধকারে আর যিনি দেখছেন তিনি যেন আলোতে বসে দুজনে দুজনের ঋণ মেটাচ্ছেন শুধু।”
― Ananda Bagchi

“Every seed has a story, but only the ones that make it from the ground get to tell theirs.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Do not replicate the mistakes of a story that is meant to teach and guide you.”
― Eduvie Donald

“I am an unfinished story, even to myself. How, then, can you claim to know the ending?”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“All stories are love stories in the making.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life