Top 40 Iain S. Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”

— Iain S. Thomas

2. “I hope each day is better than the last.”

— Iain S. Thomas

3. “The universe is desperately trying to move you into the only spot that truly belongs to you, in the whole entire thing, a space that only you can stand in. I believe it is up to you to decide every single day whether you are moving towards or away from that spot.”

— Iain S. Thomas

4. “And he loves her. He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”

— Iain S. Thomas

5. “Often, we hate people not because they have wronged us, but because they have reminded us of some secret part of ourselves that we don’t like. Maybe, making peace with the world starts with making peace with ourselves.”

— Iain S. Thomas

6. “There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”

— Iain S. Thomas

7. “My worry is that what you measure yourself with ends up defining you. You pour yourself into the thing that measures you and it defines you. And I just hope that one day you find out that you’re fuller when you measure yourself in love and people and moments, instead of things, adoration and money.”

— Iain S. Thomas

8. “And we’re not everything we could be, because we’re afraid to allow ourselves to exist all at once, because too many people have told us not to.”

— Iain S. Thomas

9. “I hope you never become something you hate.”

— Iain S. Thomas

10. “Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Iain S. Thomas

11. “I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”

— Iain S. Thomas

12. “I hope you experience a moment of truth and beauty that inspires you for years and sets your eyes on fire, and that everyone who looks at you after that moment knows that you have been changed.”

— Iain S. Thomas

13. “Even if you do it quietly you have to give yourself the life you want.”

— Iain S. Thomas

14. “Go find a way to be like dust in light, suspended above the carpet, go find a new way to be that doesn’t make you feel like you’re trying to be anything at all.”

— Iain S. Thomas

15. “It doesn’t hurt because if you keep hurting the same part of you again and again and again, the nerve endings all die. And when that happens, that part of you goes numb. That’s why it doesn’t hurt. Don’t be proud of it.”

— Iain S. Thomas

16. “Sometimes, I hide in a coffee shop because I want to hear my name being called by a stranger, by someone I haven’t disappointed yet.”

— Iain S. Thomas

17. “You are here for one moment and it last’s exactly one lifetime.”

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18. “You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and say, ‘This is not who I am. This is not what I want. I’m sorry, but you’ve mistaken me for somebody else.”

— Iain S. Thomas

19. “I know strangers can stain your heart in the same way.”

— Iain S. Thomas

20. “I hope that if love hurts, it teaches you something about yourself or about someone else.”

— Iain S. Thomas

21. “I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for. You were meant to read these words.”

— Iain S. Thomas

22. “There was a research article I read with the headline, “Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,” because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”

— Iain S. Thomas

23. “But if we are the monster, and the person being chased, then we need to stop running because we cannot run away from ourselves.”

— Iain S. Thomas

24. “If you are lucky, one day you’ll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.”

— Iain S. Thomas

25. “I hope you die knowing that there was no end to the road, and that the road was all there ever was, and that all that mattered was how well you walked each individual step of it.”

— Iain S. Thomas

26. “What about artists who aren’t nice people? They’re just nice people who cared too much for a person or a world that hurt them too much. So now they chase the world and people away.”

— Iain S. Thomas

27. “Kindness is not a currency, and if you treat it like one, then that is not kindness.”

— Iain S. Thomas

28. “Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”

— Iain S. Thomas

29. “She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me.”

— Iain S. Thomas

30. “History is a series of difficult choices. The only reason there’s anything left of the human race, the only reason we’re still here is because men like me made those difficult choices.”

— Iain S. Thomas

31. “Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear,” I said, to no one in particular.”

— Iain S. Thomas

32. “Sometimes I have a weird dream that we’re all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire.”

— Iain S. Thomas

33. “I hope you love whenever you’re given the chance to love.”

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34. “Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.”

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35. “I hope you’re brave enough to hug yourself and be ok with yourself as everyone else will go away eventually but you will always have to live with you.”

— Iain S. Thomas

36. “What follows is what happens each time I fall. I do not know if these things really happen but this is what I believe happens. As your eyes move across these words, some sacred engine is coming back to life and I am beginning to fall again. Sometimes, it feels like I’m floating.”

— Iain S. Thomas

37. “Yet you still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grew rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and must never suffer the indignity of actually still existing. Of being real. Of having flaws. Of breaking and deteriorating. Only the things you no longer have will always be perfect.”

— Iain S. Thomas

38. “I hope you learn the difference between the easy thing, the hard thing, the smart thing, and the right thing.”

— Iain S. Thomas

39. “Draw every bad word you’ve ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.”

— Iain S. Thomas

40. “I hope you never hate anything longer than you need to.”

— Iain S. Thomas

41. “The problem with the chemicals in my head is they lead to feelings in the rest of me.”

— Iain S. Thomas