Top 100 David Arnold Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I wish wishing were enough, but it’s not. Sometimes you need a thing.”

— David Arnold

52. “It’s okay.” I say again. Because if I keep saying it, maybe it will be true. It’s okay it’s okay it’s okay it’s okay.”

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

54. “I have asked the stars many questions. This is the first time they’ve answered.”

— David Arnold

55. “We sit there, just being together, not speaking or even looking at each other, and it feels quietly tectonic, the kind of moment that might move a mountain if it were let outside.”

— David Arnold

56. “Exactly why I don’t have a boyfriend,” I whisper, turning to the window. Because you’ve referenced The Lord of the Rings twice before lunch, or because you’re talking to yourself? I have to admit, I’ve got me there.”

— David Arnold

57. “It occurred to her that this was true friendship: a person in your life who was willing to walk through strange doors into dark places, so long as they could walk there with you.”

— David Arnold

58. “Yes, Mom but how does the music get from that needle” – I pointed my chubby little finger to the record player -“to my heart.” My earliest memories of music had nothing to do with listening, and everything in the world to do with feeling. – Mim, Mosquitoland.”

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

60. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

63. “I swear, the longer I live, the less things make sense.”

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

66. “Whenever Kit got down about being born in a world where Flies ate humans, he reminded himself that even in the world before Flies, things made little sense.”

— David Arnold

67. “I sat there frozen, wondering if this icy truth could ever melt, if the madness of the world could ever be cured.”

— David Arnold

68. “And behind the good doctor, his Wall of Hubris: I counted seven framed degrees, hung with care and pride and more than a little jackassedness. Oh-ho, you don’t believe I’m important, eh? Well then, how do you explain these?!?!?!”

— David Arnold

69. “In the background Bowie sings of lawmen and cavemen, sailors fighting in dance halls, and I wish he were here now, in this kitchen with me, and I would hold his hand and together we would talk of life – on Mars, or otherwise.”

— David Arnold

70. “Strange, how a person could create something they didn’t understand. But maybe that was what made art great: Who cares where it comes from, so long as it comes from you?”

— David Arnold

71. “She never said so out loud, but some things speak loud enough on their own.”

— David Arnold

72. “Beck’s smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way a person treats the innocent, and Walt is nothing if not innocence personified.”

— David Arnold

73. “I’m done roaming hillsides. I’ve scoured the corners of the earth. And I’ve found my people. God, I’m almost jealous of myself.”

— David Arnold

74. “My Reasons may be hard, but my Objectives are quite simple.”

— David Arnold

75. “I see a million miles of life, a million lives in one, a million headaches, heartaches, brainaches, a million ingredients in her eyes.”

— David Arnold

76. “Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn’t.”

— David Arnold

77. “Don’t underestimate the value of friends.”

— David Arnold

78. “Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it’s a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that’s not really a choice at all.”

— David Arnold

79. “I cry because I’ve never smiled like that, not once in my life. I cry because I love. For some reason, I always have.”

— David Arnold

80. “Why are my medical mysteries Reasons? I’m glad you asked. I’ve developed a theory I like to call the Pain Principle. The gist of it is this: pain makes people who they are.”

— David Arnold

81. “The truth is, reasons are hard. I’m standing on a whole stack of them right now, with barely a notion of how I got up here.”

— David Arnold

82. “They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root.”

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

84. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

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

— David Arnold

94. “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

95. “He’d done more than give her a story – he’d given her life inside the story.”

— David Arnold

96. “Do so with gusto, because my God, there’s nothing sorrier than a gusto-less existence.”

— David Arnold

97. “The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give.”

— David Arnold

98. “Pain makes people who they are.”

— David Arnold

99. “I smile at Beck, a wide-eyed, can-you-believe-the-awesomeness-that-is-Walt sort of smile. He’s wearing the same one. “I think we’ll all remember the rendezvouski.”

— David Arnold

100. “Look at you,” I whisper, smiling, crying. “Lovely.”

— David Arnold