Top 100 David Arnold Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I swear, the longer I live, the less things make sense.”

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

54. “And as simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are – and not who you are not – is the most important thing of all Important Things.”

— David Arnold

55. “Sometimes a thing doesn’t seem real until we say it out loud.”

— David Arnold

56. “I’m a Picasso, not a Vermeer.”

— David Arnold

57. “So I float in silence, watching the final touches of this perfect moonrise, and in a moment of heavenly revelation, it occurs to me that detours are not without purpose. They provide safe passage to a destination, avoiding pitfalls in the process.”

— David Arnold

58. “Help is help to anyone, Mary. Even if they don’t know they’re asking for it.” I said that made a whole lot of sense, because it did. And it still does. Here’s the thing, Iz: my mom needs help right now. And I know it, even if she doesn’t.”

— David Arnold

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

— David Arnold

65. “Peer pressure is one thing, but when your dad’s the pusher, it’s something else entirely.”

— David Arnold

66. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

69. “Be a kid of honesty. Wave it like a banner for all to see... Be a kid who loves surprises... Be curious, but content. Be loyal, but independent. Be kind. To everyone. Treat every day like you’re making waffles... Live your effing life. Do it with gusto... Know yourself. Love yourself. Be a good friend. Be a kid of hope and substance. Be a kid of appetite.”

— David Arnold

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

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

— David Arnold

77. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

83. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

86. “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

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

— David Arnold

88. “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

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

— David Arnold

90. “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

91. “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

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

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

— David Arnold

96. “I’m already jealous of myself five minutes ago. Because you can’t un-know a honky-tonk.”

— David Arnold

97. “There are times when talking just pushes out the tears.”

— 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. “Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys.”

— David Arnold