Human Story Quotes

• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Death
  • Natural
  • Lord of the Rings

• There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Tree
  • Trifling
  • Human Story

• There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.

  

  Ben Quilty
  • Interesting
  • Paintings
  • Imagining