Top 150 Isaac Marion Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”

— Isaac Marion

2. “Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector’s item.”

— Isaac Marion

3. “There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it’s up to you how you respond to it.”

— Isaac Marion

4. “Breathing is optional, but I need some air.”

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5. “I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.”

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6. “I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”

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7. “I’m watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don’t deserve them. Her warm memories. I’d like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”

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8. “Writing isn’t letters on paper. It’s communication. It’s memory.”

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9. “It was fun, but it’s over now. This is how things go.”

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10. “Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.”

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11. “I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.”

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12. “In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”

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13. “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”

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14. “Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I’ve decided I want to live forever.”

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15. “I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys.”

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16. “One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that’s all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.”

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17. “God has made us study partner. We need to talk about our project.”

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18. “Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.”

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19. “What wonderful thing didn’t start out scary?”

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20. “It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.”

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21. “We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.”

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22. “We’re fumbling in the dark, but at least we’re in motion.”

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23. “I’m alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.”

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24. “It feels good to hate my life. It feels safe. If death is what I want, then nothing can ever hurt me.”

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25. “He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”

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26. “Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.”

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27. “It’s more eerie to be alone in a city that’s lit up and functioning than one that’s a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.”

— Isaac Marion

28. “I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God’s boarded-up basement.”

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29. “I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?”

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30. “Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.”

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31. “No praise, no blame. Just so.”

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32. “Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.”

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33. “But no, “R.” No sleep of the innocent. Not for you. Did you forget? You have blood on your hands. On your lips. On your teeth. Smile for the cameras.”

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34. “Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn’t been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.”

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35. “We smile, because this is how we save the world.”

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36. “Once you’ve arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”

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37. “What’s the point of trying to fix a world we’re so briefly in?”

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38. “I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.”

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39. “We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.”

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40. “Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion – you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”

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41. “I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.”

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42. “Her eyes are classic novels and poetry.”

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43. “There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can’t cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.”

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44. “I don’t want to hear music, I don’t want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

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45. “You know things are moving. You’re changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?”

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46. “But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.”

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47. “We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.”

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48. “The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.”

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49. “The future is as blurry to me as the past. I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present, and the present isn’t exactly urgent. You might say death has relaxed me.”

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50. “It’s a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She’s on me and under me and next to me. It’s as if the entire room is made out of her.”

— Isaac Marion