Top 40 Hipster Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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2. “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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3. “Life is nothing if you’re not obsessed.”

— John Waters

4. “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”

— William S. Burroughs

5. “Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”

— Banksy

6. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley

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7. “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don’t work.”

— James Frey

8. “Typography is what language looks like.”

— Ellen Lupton

9. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green

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10. “The visionary is the only realist.”

— Federico Fellini

11. “The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don’t take themselves seriously.”

— Chris Hardwick

12. “The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.”

— John Green

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13. “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

14. “I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.”

— Norm MacDonald

15. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

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16. “Civilization begins with distillation.”

— William Faulkner

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17. “Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.”

— Robert Zend

18. “To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

19. “Suffering is universal.”

— John Green

20. “All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”

— John Green

21. “So I let her go, too. And I’m sorry.”

— John Green

22. “I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”

— John Green

23. “We think that we are invincible because we are.”

— John Green

24. “You may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer.”

— John Green

25. “People believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”

— John Green

26. “Love is just a shout in the void.”

— John Green

27. “This star won’t go out. And it won’t. we won’t let it.”

— John Green

28. “The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

— John Green

29. “To be human is to catch the falling person.”

— John Green

30. “If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.”

— John Green

31. “Life has become the future.”

— John Green

32. “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

33. “They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.”

— Jack Kerouac

34. “She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”

— John Green

35. “I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.”

— John Green

36. “Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.”

— John Green

37. “He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

38. “I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.”

— Woody Allen

39. “I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.”

— John Green

40. “When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I’m grateful. It’s like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.”

— Jonah Goldberg