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Top 20 David Vann Quotes (2025 Update)

David Vann Quote: “A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?”

1. “A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?”

David Vann Quote: “Having something to look forward to changes everything. I’ve always needed a future. I can’t live without one.”

2. “Having something to look forward to changes everything. I’ve always needed a future. I can’t live without one.”

David Vann Quote: “Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable.”

3. “Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable.”

David Vann Quote: “Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.”

4. “Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.”

David Vann Quote: “Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that’s the world we know forever after. It’s the only world. We can’t see what it might have looked like otherwise.”

5. “Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that’s the world we know forever after. It’s the only world. We can’t see what it might have looked like otherwise.”

David Vann Quote: “There are no gods, only men.”

6. “There are no gods, only men.”

David Vann Quote: “Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.”

7. “Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.”

David Vann Quote: “Memories are infinitely richer than their origins, I discovered; to travel back can only estrange one even from memory itself. And because memory is often all that a life or a self is built on, returning home can take away exactly that.”

8. “Memories are infinitely richer than their origins, I discovered; to travel back can only estrange one even from memory itself. And because memory is often all that a life or a self is built on, returning home can take away exactly that.”

David Vann Quote: “Sleep, she said. Sleep while you can. Forget where you are and forget the mountain of days. Each one enormous, lost in some forest that never ends, but then the edge will fold back and you’ll walk on what was the sky and is now only another forest floor, another layer, and you can feel the weight of hundreds of these layers above you.”

9. “Sleep, she said. Sleep while you can. Forget where you are and forget the mountain of days. Each one enormous, lost in some forest that never ends, but then the edge will fold back and you’ll walk on what was the sky and is now only another forest floor, another layer, and you can feel the weight of hundreds of these layers above you.”

David Vann Quote: “That’s true. It doesn’t make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I’ll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there’s no point to any of it. They left out that part.”

10. “That’s true. It doesn’t make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I’ll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there’s no point to any of it. They left out that part.”

David Vann Quote: “Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make and destroy us. They warp the world and remake it their own shape, and that’s the world we know forever after.”

11. “Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make and destroy us. They warp the world and remake it their own shape, and that’s the world we know forever after.”

David Vann Quote: “Because you can choose who you’ll be with, but you can’t choose who they’ll become.”

12. “Because you can choose who you’ll be with, but you can’t choose who they’ll become.”

David Vann Quote: “This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.”

13. “This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.”

David Vann Quote: “The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.”

14. “The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.”

David Vann Quote: “I’ve thought of it ever since, the idea that we don’t stray far, that what feels like discovery is only the revealing of what was hidden but there, waiting. I remember because I think this might be a path to forgiveness, to realize that no matter how violent, how frightening my mother was, it was not random but at least partly inescapable, that who she was had been set in motion long before and she had to suffer that person as much as I did.”

15. “I’ve thought of it ever since, the idea that we don’t stray far, that what feels like discovery is only the revealing of what was hidden but there, waiting. I remember because I think this might be a path to forgiveness, to realize that no matter how violent, how frightening my mother was, it was not random but at least partly inescapable, that who she was had been set in motion long before and she had to suffer that person as much as I did.”

David Vann Quote: “There can be no god without desire.”

16. “There can be no god without desire.”

David Vann Quote: “The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn’t true. There’s only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.”

17. “The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn’t true. There’s only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.”

David Vann Quote: “Origins... They don’t explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work.”

18. “Origins... They don’t explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work.”

David Vann Quote: “Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck.”

19. “Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck.”

David Vann Quote: “Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.”

20. “Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.”

David Vann Quote: “Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there’s the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”

21. “Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there’s the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”

David Vann Quote: “We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.”

22. “We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.”

David Vann Quote: “If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.”

23. “If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.”

David Vann Quote: “Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.”

24. “Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.”

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