Top 200 Blake Crouch Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. – GEORGE ORWELL, 1984.”

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2. “Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”

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3. “Nature doesn’t see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.”

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4. “Life never really goes the way you want or expect. Usually, even getting exactly what you want turns out not to have been what you really wanted. So, my son, if you ever find a sliver of happiness and peace, just be thankful and live.”

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5. “Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.”

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6. “So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?”

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7. “My soul knows your soul. In any time.”

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8. “We’re all made of the same thing – the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”

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9. “I’ve found in my life that sometimes the best company is your own.”

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10. “What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. – T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton.”

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11. “Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.”

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12. “But it’s all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you’re in it, it’s all just day-to-day, right? And isn’t that what you have to make your peace with?”

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13. “Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together – the thing that makes our whole universe work – comes from a theoretical substance we can’t measure or observe directly. Something they call dark matter. And this dark matter makes up most of the known universe.”

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14. “When you write something, you focus your full attention on it. It’s almost impossible to write one thing while thinking about another. The act of putting it on paper keeps your thoughts and intentions aligned.”

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15. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone – while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?” JOB.”

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16. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.”

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17. “He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is – one long goodbye to those we love.”

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18. “It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”

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19. “We’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”

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20. “For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”

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21. “Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn’t make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat.”

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22. “It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. I.”

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23. “I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.”

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24. “If there are a million ponds out there, with versions of you and me living similar and different lives, there’s none better than right here, right now. I’m more sure of that than anything in the world.”

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25. “I’m looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach.”

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26. “It’s like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.”

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27. “I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing – the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”

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28. “I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing – the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars. I’ve just never felt that knowledge in my bones until that moment, there, with you. And it’s because of you.”

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29. “You killed your ambition, didn’t you?” “It died of natural causes. Of neglect.”

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30. “It’s a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself.”

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31. “At this point, I’m not even sure what to be afraid of – this reality that might actually be true, or the possibility that everything is going to pieces inside my head.”

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32. “This low point isn’t the book of your life. It’s just a chapter.”

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33. “I want to breathe the same air as you every minute of every day of my life. No matter how many timelines I live.”

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34. “We’re all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglass.”

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35. “Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

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36. “DMT is responsible for our dreams. But at the moment of death, the pineal gland releases a veritable flood of DMT. A going-out-of-business sale.”

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37. “What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.”

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38. “All your life you’re told you’re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It’s humanity’s anthem.”

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39. “As long as I’m with you, I know exactly who I am.”

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40. “I don’t have close friends. There are acquaintances, a brother I talk to on the phone once a year on Christmas morning. Occasional dates, but no real love life. My work’s been my life and love.”

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41. “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. – RAY CUMMINGS.”

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42. “I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.”

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43. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”

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44. “This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We’re not just looking into space, we’re looking back through time.”

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45. “There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear.”

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46. “If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.”

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47. “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.’ Robert Frost wrote that.”

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48. “You live with your choices and learn. You don’t cheat the system.”

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49. “Is this what you want? To drop yourself into a still-life painting of a memory because life has broken your heart?”

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50. “You made me in your image, and now I will remake you in mine.”

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