In the end, every man’s life is but a tale told to him that’s lived it, and to him alone.
– Tim Willocks
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- If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous. – Orson Scott Card
- I’ll be ready when you are, esclave. A life for a life. A tale for a tale. – Pepper Winters
- Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad. – Jamie Farrell
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Two forces create eternity -“ a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. – Dejan Stojanovic
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
- The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. – Peter S Beagle
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- …life didn’t always have to be so serious. That life was to be lived. That life was one great adventure, to be lived well and to the full. – Tillie Cole
- But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met. – John Fowles
- If all records told the same tale-”then the lie passed into history and became truth. – George Orwell
- You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. – Toba Beta
- But how wonderful when the tale is told,And the message that is meant for usOpens like the scents of a mountain flower! – Mazisi Kunene
- For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. – Anonymous
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. – Johnny Rich
- Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure of a tale well told… – Brian Holguin
- A life lived in fear is a life half lived. – Carrie Hope Fletcher
- A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity – Todd Stocker
- A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past. – Asa Don Brown
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
- What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. – Rodney Dangerfield
- A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I’d trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. – Quentin R Bufogle
- Saul’s vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. – Joe Haldeman
- If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my condolences for you have never really lived. – Rock Cowles
- It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn’t lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn’t lived yet. – Kasie West
- Life is easier lived when lived for others. – Chris Matakas
- A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy. – Taite Adams
- Life isn’t about the years you lived. It is about how you lived. – Tanushree Podder
- I hated him for making me stop hating him – Tim OBrien
- Sit with me, and I’ll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I’ll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I’ll no longer suffer alone. – Richelle E Goodrich
- She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. – LM Montgomery
- To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone tog – Vera Nazarian
- You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to. – Michael Morpurgo
- Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you’re alone with yourself. – Erica Alex
- It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don’t think I can handle it alone. – Ernest Hemingway
- Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. – AS Byatt