Top 180 James Frey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”

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2. “And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.”

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3. “Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”

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4. “But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.”

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5. “I love the process of being alone in a room.”

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6. “The past doesn’t matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.”

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7. “I think men who can cry are strong men.”

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

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9. “The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.”

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10. “When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There’s nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.”

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11. “Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”

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12. “The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.”

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13. “Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.”

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14. “I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”

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15. “A miracle is changing someone’s life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.”

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16. “There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

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17. “To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.”

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18. “Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what.”

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19. “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.”

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20. “Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

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21. “I’ve been alone my whole life, I can’t do it anymore.”

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22. “Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it’s possible.”

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23. “We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.”

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24. “Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

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25. “I hate myself. I hate myself so much that I can’t look myself in the eye. I hate myself so much that suicide seems like a reasonable option.”

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26. “The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.”

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27. “Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.”

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28. “I’m tired of making people sad and I’m tired of disappointing them and I’m tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.”

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29. “Don’t tell people the way, just show them the results.”

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30. “I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it’s all we’ve got.”

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31. “No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.”

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32. “I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don’t.”

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33. “People don’t want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they’re not responsible for, like disease or genetics.”

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34. “The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It’s in a million little pieces. I’m afraid I can’t help you. Why? There’s nothing you can do. Why? It can’t be fixed. Why? It’s broken beyond repair. It’s in a million little pieces.”

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35. “I am alone. I have no one to talk to and no one to call.”

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36. “I always felt I had a hole in my heart, this big black hole that made me feel lonely and empty and worthless. I tried to fill it, everybody tries in some way, and it just got bigger and bigger.”

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37. “Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.”

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38. “There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.”

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39. “I’m trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That’s a big ambition of mine.”

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40. “Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.”

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41. “Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.”

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42. “I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.”

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43. “Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”

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44. “I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don’t make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.”

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45. “We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.”

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46. “Love is love. It doesn’t matter how or who you love. I don’t believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.”

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47. “I can feel blood dripping from the wounds on my face and I can feel my heart beating and I can feel the weight of my life beginning to drop and I realize why dawn is called mourning.”

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48. “No one wants to die alone, even though that’s how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there’s some other ways.”

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49. “All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

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50. “I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I’ve always been good at destroying things.”

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