“(Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You’re my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you’re no option at all.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I've had countless conversations with or about people who are "sleeping in separate bedrooms", as if sleeping in the same bed is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You know that things aren’t going well for you when you can’t even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The point is not that my life is one long golden summer which I am simply too self-absorbed to appreciate (although it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Most days, for the last dozen or so years, I attributed to Charlie, or at least to our breakup, most things that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And I don’t know what difference it made, this sudden flash. It wasn’t like I wanted to, you know, grab life in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
![“[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/19d/nick-hornby-325_eternity_about-suicide-and-why-is-it-the-biggest_2184431.png)
