John Darnielle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."
-- John Darnielle

#Children #Selfish #Humans
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
-- John Darnielle

#Nursing #Expression #People
Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.
-- John Darnielle

#Men #Shopping #Missing
It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing
-- John Darnielle

#Heart #Kids #Years
The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
-- John Darnielle

#Wise #Artist #People
The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
-- John Darnielle

#Want #Way #Causes
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
-- John Darnielle

#Winter #Ice #Pieces
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
-- John Darnielle

#Stupid #Alive #Feels
One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
-- John Darnielle

#Way #Sin #Get Real
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
-- John Darnielle

#Ideas #Firsts #Fierce
You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
-- John Darnielle

#Giving #World #Shelter
There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
-- John Darnielle

#Two #Stories
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.
-- John Darnielle

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #People
This is why people cry at the movies: because everybodyâ€™s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
-- John Darnielle

#Fate #People #Way
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
-- John Darnielle

#Book #Light #Rocks
Good things never last, bad things never die.
-- John Darnielle

#Lasts #Good Things
People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?
-- John Darnielle

#People
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
-- John Darnielle

#Dream #Forgiving #Persons

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