Top 90 Anderson Cooper Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.”

— Anderson Cooper

2. “I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.”

— Anderson Cooper

3. “I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”

— Anderson Cooper

4. “Learning what you don’t want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.”

— Anderson Cooper

5. “I’m not trying to be something that I’m not. I’m just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don’t know.”

— Anderson Cooper

6. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.”

— Anderson Cooper

7. “The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.”

— Anderson Cooper

8. “As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn’t matter.”

— Anderson Cooper

9. “The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.”

— Anderson Cooper

10. “I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction – pride in a job well done.”

— Anderson Cooper

11. “Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.”

— Anderson Cooper

12. “I have a friend – I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don’t want a million texts. It’s exhausting.”

— Anderson Cooper

13. “Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? “Gray hairs,” the would-be Buddha said, “are like angels sent by the god of death”.”

— Anderson Cooper

14. “We are not meant always to be happy, and who would want to be? Happiness would become meaningless if it were a constant state. If you accept that, then you will not be surprised when something bad occurs, you will not gnash your teeth and ask, “Why me? Why has this happened to me?” It has happened to you because that is the nature of things. No one escapes. The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don’t be surprised by its departure, rejoice when it returns.”

— Anderson Cooper

15. “Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.”

— Anderson Cooper

16. “How can my body betray me when there is so much still to be done? You see, it isn’t age itself that betrays you; it is your body, and with its deterioration goes your power. You end up obsessed, entirely focused on your health, paying attention to every nuance, every ache and pain. Instead of working or living your life, you waste your time on appointments with doctors.”

— Anderson Cooper

17. “In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God’s greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.”

— Anderson Cooper

18. “Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.”

— Anderson Cooper

19. “The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don’t be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.”

— Anderson Cooper

20. “I’ve always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There’s nothing I can do about it but I’ve never not been able to stop.”

— Anderson Cooper

21. “That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.”

— Anderson Cooper

22. “Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”

— Anderson Cooper

23. “I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.”

— Anderson Cooper

24. “I’ve never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.”

— Anderson Cooper

25. “I don’t like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they’re not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don’t want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.”

— Anderson Cooper

26. “If you’ve ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you’re kind of moved by the currents, but you’re not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that’s sort of what meditation is like.”

— Anderson Cooper

27. “You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take.”

— Anderson Cooper

28. “I don’t feel I’m very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I’m either thinking about something that’s coming down the road or something that’s been in the past.”

— Anderson Cooper

29. “Socialism isn’t just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.”

— Anderson Cooper

30. “Remember, whenever money is involved it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart but to destroy the foundation of one’s life. Never lose sight of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interest and goals mirror your own.”

— Anderson Cooper

31. “I love you in ways that are infinite and as in eternity have no beginning or end.”

— Anderson Cooper

32. “I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.”

— Anderson Cooper

33. “Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.”

— Anderson Cooper

34. “The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”

— Anderson Cooper

35. “I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don’t know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don’t know as long as you say you don’t know it.”

— Anderson Cooper

36. “The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten.”

— Anderson Cooper

37. “Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”

— Anderson Cooper

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38. “Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.”

— Anderson Cooper

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39. “I’ve been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.”

— Anderson Cooper

40. “It’s not your client’s obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client’s innocence. It is the prosecution’s obligation to – to prove you’re client’s guilt.”

— Anderson Cooper

41. “The world has many edges, and all of us dangle from them by a very delicate thread. The key is not to let go.”

— Anderson Cooper

42. “Our skin is very thin. It doesn’t take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.”

— Anderson Cooper

43. “Do you get the anger that is out here?”

— Anderson Cooper

44. “Let it be my motto, as well as yours. Ever upward, as a new life, a new day begins. Have faith that something unexpected and wonderful is moving toward you at incredible speed-EXCELSIOR! Yes, ever upward we must go, and go together.”

— Anderson Cooper

45. “Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one’s past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.”

— Anderson Cooper

46. “A lot of compelling stories in the world aren’t being told, and the fact that people don’t know about them compounds the suffering.”

— Anderson Cooper

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47. “Politics was his passion, but he wasn’t suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.”

— Anderson Cooper

48. “If I end up hosting ‘Joker’s Wild,’ please shoot me.”

— Anderson Cooper

49. “You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there’s more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.”

— Anderson Cooper

50. “I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away – the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don’t think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don’t buy it.”

— Anderson Cooper