John Darnielle Quotes
- When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
- People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?
- Good things never last, bad things never die.
- 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…
- This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has…
- 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…
- There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
- You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
- There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
- One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
- Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
- May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.