Top 100 David Arnold Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”

— David Arnold

2. “The good guys aren’t all good, the bad guys aren’t all bad and any character wholly one or the other shouldn’t exist at all.”

— David Arnold

3. “You ever have the feeling you lost something important, only to discover it was never there to begin with?”

— David Arnold

4. “I’m feeling reckless – or honest, maybe. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference.”

— David Arnold

5. “When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”

— David Arnold

6. “Life, it seems, delivers the best punch lines only after we’ve forgotten we were part of a joke.”

— David Arnold

7. “Even in a world where Fly exterminates Human, this has not changed: that one person might find beauty in another.”

— David Arnold

8. “Till we’re old-new.”

— David Arnold

9. “I have this theory about teachers, and what separates the good ones from the bad: it’s not that good teachers don’t think about quitting; it’s that they never look like they’ve already quit.”

— David Arnold

10. “But I also know that sometimes – not always, but in the best of cases – innocence lost can be knowledge gained, and I think this is one of those times.”

— David Arnold

11. “There are many places I would like to live, and many times in which I would like to live, and I think listening to music that was composed in a time or place I’ve never lived is the closest I can get to making that happen.”

— David Arnold

12. “I cry because I love. For some reason, I always have.”

— David Arnold

13. “Sometimes Kit would look at the veins in his own hands and think, All these little rivers flowing through my body, keeping me alive. Thank you, little rivers. Thank you.”

— David Arnold

14. “Have a vision, unclouded by fear.”

— David Arnold

15. “I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn’t Moebius at all, but other people’s inability to define me by anything else.”

— David Arnold

16. “People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart. Not a place or a time, but an organ, pumping life into my life.”

— David Arnold

17. “But in a world consumed by Flies, kids were adults and adults were nowhere. How long you’d been alive only meant something when life itself wasn’t a luxury.”

— David Arnold

18. “I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.”

— David Arnold

19. “People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart.”

— David Arnold

20. “Our past tenses last way longer than our present ones.”

— David Arnold

21. “But that’s the personality of change, isn’t it? When it’s slow, it’s called growth; when it’s fast, it’s change.”

— David Arnold

22. “I act like I don’t care, but I do. I always have. And my God, what wouldn’t I give to put the pieces together?”

— David Arnold

23. “Sometimes it’s nice to feel small, to know you are far from the first.”

— David Arnold

24. “Sometimes you walk into a room one person, and when you come out the other side, you’re someone else altogether.”

— David Arnold

25. “It’s no accident, the memories that last. They are survivors.”

— David Arnold

26. “I romanticize my past and I romanticize my future; right now is always the bleakest moment of my life.”

— David Arnold

27. “What would I tell her? The truth, I hope. That in my longing for originality and relational honesty and a hundred other I-don’t-know-whats, this action, while strange and socially awkward, makes more sense than just about anything else in my world. And even though it’s cryptic and more than a little odd, sometimes cryptic and odd are better than lying down for the Man.”

— David Arnold

28. “But listening was about more than hearing; it was about when and where you put yourself in the story.”

— David Arnold

29. “How to be human, it seemed, was an infinite ocean in which Kit had only yet dipped the corner of a toenail.”

— David Arnold

30. “I was a little younger than most in my class – Mom said this gave me an edge. I’d finish school sooner, discover the world first, and maybe find whatever great thing I was meant for.”

— David Arnold

31. “I lowered my voice, because as I’d learned some time ago, a whisper was louder than a scream.”

— David Arnold

32. “We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.”

— David Arnold

33. “My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be.”

— David Arnold

34. “I think nostalgia is just a soul’s way of missing a thing, and like long-distance love, nostalgia grows deeper with time until the reality of what a thing actually was gets blurred to the point you miss the idea of the thing more than the thing itself. I like the idea of hot cocoa more than drinking it.”

— David Arnold

35. “It was beauty and discord at once. Nature unleashing her global psyche.”

— David Arnold

36. “I do not understand these things. But that’s okay. Not understanding isn’t the same as misunderstanding.”

— David Arnold

37. “There are times when I absolutely, 110 percent, without a doubt, have to laugh at a thing. ‘Cause if I don’t, that same thing will make me go stark-raving bananas.”

— David Arnold

38. “Maybe instead of portals to other worlds, all we needed were portals to other times.”

— David Arnold

39. “You know–I think my best course of action is to just let the ridiculousness of that sentence marinate.”

— David Arnold

40. “Sometimes being with gets overlooked I think.”

— David Arnold

41. “I wish wishing were enough, but it’s not.”

— David Arnold

42. “We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.”

— David Arnold

43. “I am not me, I said to the ocean, to the old feet, to the face in the mirror. And it was true. In the dream, the reflection staring back at me was not my own. It was my mother’s.”

— David Arnold

44. “He wraps an arm around me, and I swear we were once a single unit, a supercontinent divided millions of years ago – like my fifth grade science project – now reunited into some kaleidoscopic New Pangea. “I’m Madagascar,” I say, sleepily. “You’re what?” “I’m Madagascar. And you’re Africa.” He squeezes my shoulder, and – I think he gets it. I bet he does.”

— David Arnold

45. “Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.”

— David Arnold

46. “A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear – I’M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, ‘Yes. Yes, you are.”

— David Arnold

47. “Remember this when I describe the antics that follow, for though I am not a villain, I am not immune to villainy.”

— David Arnold

48. “Sometimes, things are more embarrassing when you’re alone. I guess when no one’s around to hear your stupidity, you’re forced to bear the brunt of it.”

— David Arnold

49. “Like a Siren, it tempts me with whispered promises of the ever-elusive Normal Life.”

— David Arnold

50. “That’s the thing about life – you don’t know how long you have until you’re dead, and by then, you don’t know much of anything at all.”

— David Arnold