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Top 20 David Wojnarowicz Quotes (2025 Update)

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

1. “Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.”

2. “History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “It is exhausting living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.”

3. “It is exhausting living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.”

4. “Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”

5. “I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I’m amazed we’re not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

6. “I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I’m amazed we’re not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.”

7. “To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form; my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat.”

8. “Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form; my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I’ve been in rage all my life at this thing we call ‘society’”

9. “I’ve been in rage all my life at this thing we call ‘society’”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need.”

10. “I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.”

11. “Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.”

12. “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Bottom line, if people don’t say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.”

13. “Bottom line, if people don’t say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.”

14. “Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “If silence equals death, he taught us, then art equals language equals life.”

15. “If silence equals death, he taught us, then art equals language equals life.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “It’s just a real gentle moment. I’m here by myself and I don’t mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.”

16. “It’s just a real gentle moment. I’m here by myself and I don’t mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I’ll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.”

17. “I’ll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “If silence equals death, then art equals language equals life.” – David Wojnarowicz.”

18. “If silence equals death, then art equals language equals life.” – David Wojnarowicz.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do.”

19. “When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “My eyes have always been advertisements for an early death.”

20. “My eyes have always been advertisements for an early death.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world. The government has the job of maintaining the day to day illusion of the one tribe nation. Each public disclosure of a public reality becomes something of a magnet that can attract others with a similar frame of reference. Thus, each public disclosure of a fragment of private reality serves as a dismantling tool against the illusion of a one tribe nation.”

21. “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world. The government has the job of maintaining the day to day illusion of the one tribe nation. Each public disclosure of a public reality becomes something of a magnet that can attract others with a similar frame of reference. Thus, each public disclosure of a fragment of private reality serves as a dismantling tool against the illusion of a one tribe nation.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I found him very sexy because I love difference. An unbearably handsome face bores me unless something beneath it surface is crooked or askew: even a broken nose or one eye slightly higher than the other, or something psychological, something unfamiliar and maybe even suspect.”

22. “I found him very sexy because I love difference. An unbearably handsome face bores me unless something beneath it surface is crooked or askew: even a broken nose or one eye slightly higher than the other, or something psychological, something unfamiliar and maybe even suspect.”

— David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz Quote: “Doing time in a Disposable Body.”

23. “Doing time in a Disposable Body.”

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David Wojnarowicz Quote: “I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymously.”

24. “I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymously.”

— David Wojnarowicz

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