Top 50 Andrew Davidson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”

— Andrew Davidson

3. “I am more than my scars.”

— Andrew Davidson

4. “If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches.”

— Andrew Davidson

5. “It doesn’t matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.”

— Andrew Davidson

6. “With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.”

— Andrew Davidson

7. “Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”

— Andrew Davidson

8. “Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”

— Andrew Davidson

9. “You’ll swoop from incredible highs when you’re just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you’ve accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.”

— Andrew Davidson

10. “Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.”

— Andrew Davidson

11. “Belief in a better future is an amazing gift.”

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12. “I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.”

— Andrew Davidson

13. “Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.”

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14. “Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn’t a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.”

— Andrew Davidson

15. “Didn’t anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?”

— Andrew Davidson

16. “Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.”

— Andrew Davidson

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17. “Love isn’t a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that’s exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear. For those of you who cannot quite picture a pygmy mouse lemur, imagine a miniature Don Knotts or Steve Buscemi wearing a fur coat.”

— Andrew Davidson

18. “Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.”

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19. “All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn’t really belong to either of them.”

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20. “Don’t be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I’ll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don’t ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.”

— Andrew Davidson

21. “There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”

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22. “The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.”

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23. “That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can’t abide the fire shall go through water.”

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24. “Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.”

— Andrew Davidson

25. “Nella vita le sventure ci colgono di sorpresa, spesso con violenza, proprio come l’amore.”

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26. “Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?”

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27. “As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

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28. “Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.”

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29. “That which is painful sharpens one’s love.”

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30. “Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...”

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31. “Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”

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32. “It’s not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may “get the girl” – but usually only with a pickax.”

— Andrew Davidson

33. “The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday’s canvas with today’s paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret...”

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34. “Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death.”

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35. “Christ, I’m in Hell and they wear uniforms.”

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36. “I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.”

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37. “While I’m not claiming that I now feel great love for all people, I can state with some confidence that I hate fewer people than I used to. This may seem like a weak claim to personal growth, but sometimes these things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.”

— Andrew Davidson

38. “As soon as a man has chosen a side in war, he’s already picked the wrong one.”

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39. “She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God’s will be done- and when it is, they complain.”

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40. “In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed, because character was set at birth; childhood was a period of revelation, not development, so when my language abilities appeared they were thought to have always existed, placed there by God, waiting to be made known.”

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41. “It’s a strange but consistent trait of people who consider themselves unattractive. They look embarrassed if you suggest that they might be interested in someone; because they feel unworthy of receiving attention, they also deny that they would dare to give it.”

— Andrew Davidson

42. “Talking with the mouth of a beast won’t ease your pain.”

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43. “These day’s I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book’s cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.”

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44. “My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I’m unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.”

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45. “Any man who believes he can describe love’, I answered, ’understands nothing about it.”

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46. “Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”

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47. “How could you escape a past that was so determined to make you pay?”

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48. “Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that’s when she turns into a ‘Christmas Cake’. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.”

— Andrew Davidson

49. “She had what I’d call a lemming ass – that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff.”

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50. “Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.”

— Andrew Davidson