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Top 20 David Joy Quotes (2025 Update)

David Joy Quote: “You still can’t see it and it’s right in front of your eyes. It’s the reason we’re gathered here. The only reason we’re here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us.”

1. “You still can’t see it and it’s right in front of your eyes. It’s the reason we’re gathered here. The only reason we’re here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us.”

David Joy Quote: “Empathy’s not standing over a hole looking down and saying you understand. Empathy is having been in that hole yourself.”

2. “Empathy’s not standing over a hole looking down and saying you understand. Empathy is having been in that hole yourself.”

David Joy Quote: “There are some things worth dying for and some things worth killing for and some things that could make a man do all sorts of things he never knew he was capable of until the time came to do them.”

3. “There are some things worth dying for and some things worth killing for and some things that could make a man do all sorts of things he never knew he was capable of until the time came to do them.”

David Joy Quote: “Some souls aren’t worth saving, I thought. There’re some souls that even the devil wants no part of.”

4. “Some souls aren’t worth saving, I thought. There’re some souls that even the devil wants no part of.”

David Joy Quote: “Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we’re left with is growing old and forgetting.”

5. “Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we’re left with is growing old and forgetting.”

David Joy Quote: “There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.”

6. “There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.”

David Joy Quote: “Dwayne understood that his brother was not meant for this place, that some people were born too soft to bear the teeth of this world. There was no place for weakness in a world like this. Survival was so often a matter of meanness.”

7. “Dwayne understood that his brother was not meant for this place, that some people were born too soft to bear the teeth of this world. There was no place for weakness in a world like this. Survival was so often a matter of meanness.”

David Joy Quote: “Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.”

8. “Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.”

David Joy Quote: “What I’m saying is that it’s easy to take the high road so long as there aren’t any stakes. But the minute you’ve got something to lose, a man’ll do all sorts of things.”

9. “What I’m saying is that it’s easy to take the high road so long as there aren’t any stakes. But the minute you’ve got something to lose, a man’ll do all sorts of things.”

David Joy Quote: “That kind of love wasn’t for anyone outside the two of them. It was private and silent, sufficient as grace.”

10. “That kind of love wasn’t for anyone outside the two of them. It was private and silent, sufficient as grace.”

David Joy Quote: “Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn’t have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.”

11. “Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn’t have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.”

David Joy Quote: “I wasn’t old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he’d never have to love her again.”

12. “I wasn’t old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he’d never have to love her again.”

David Joy Quote: “The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface’s roiling a reflection of what’s buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.”

13. “The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface’s roiling a reflection of what’s buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.”

David Joy Quote: “There wasn’t any way out of that darkness but forward.”

14. “There wasn’t any way out of that darkness but forward.”

David Joy Quote: “For as tough as the men were in these mountains, the women had always been stone. They were used to loss, accustomed to never having enough. They were fit for the harshness of this world.”

15. “For as tough as the men were in these mountains, the women had always been stone. They were used to loss, accustomed to never having enough. They were fit for the harshness of this world.”

David Joy Quote: “Says an awful lot about a country that’d rather cut a man a disability check than fix him up so he can go find a job.”

16. “Says an awful lot about a country that’d rather cut a man a disability check than fix him up so he can go find a job.”

David Joy Quote: “Lightning screamed sideways across the sky, and beneath a tall stand of pines was a place most wouldn’t have found comfort, but it was the closest I’d ever been to baptism. My mind cleared and that clearheadedness brought on a dream of setting the world right. It wasn’t vengeful or fueled by hatred, but rather a settling of debt owed, a righting of the world that had needed righting for a long, long time.”

17. “Lightning screamed sideways across the sky, and beneath a tall stand of pines was a place most wouldn’t have found comfort, but it was the closest I’d ever been to baptism. My mind cleared and that clearheadedness brought on a dream of setting the world right. It wasn’t vengeful or fueled by hatred, but rather a settling of debt owed, a righting of the world that had needed righting for a long, long time.”

David Joy Quote: “It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over.”

18. “It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over.”

David Joy Quote: “It’s good to be driven, but there’s a lot more to living than working it all away.”

19. “It’s good to be driven, but there’s a lot more to living than working it all away.”

David Joy Quote: “His mind turned instantly back to what had been troubling him over the past week. He was grieving the loss of a place and a people. It was hard enough to bury the bodies of those you loved, but it was another sadness altogether to witness the death of a culture. There was the gone and the going away, and there was the after. He found it difficult to imagine what would become of this place, harder still to witness what it was already becoming. For.”

20. “His mind turned instantly back to what had been troubling him over the past week. He was grieving the loss of a place and a people. It was hard enough to bury the bodies of those you loved, but it was another sadness altogether to witness the death of a culture. There was the gone and the going away, and there was the after. He found it difficult to imagine what would become of this place, harder still to witness what it was already becoming. For.”

David Joy Quote: “It wasn’t here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.”

21. “It wasn’t here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.”

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