Top 60 Joey Comeau Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.”

— Joey Comeau

2. “Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.”

— Joey Comeau

3. “Be the trouble you want to see in the world.”

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4. “We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn’t race for a hurricane or a burning building. I’d rather die terrified than live forever.”

— Joey Comeau

5. “You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.”

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6. “Having all the answers just means you’ve been asking boring questions.”

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7. “I’ve always known I’d be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.”

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8. “Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.”

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9. “If we couldn’t carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.”

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10. “Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it.”

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11. “I’d rather die terrified than live forever.”

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12. “It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.”

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13. “When I played doctor I played to win.”

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14. “There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”

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15. “It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.”

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16. “I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.”

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17. “I know that I don’t deserve you, but that’s okay. Life’s not fair.”

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18. “I don’t fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I’m still not sure. I’m suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don’t feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.”

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19. “Art isn’t just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.”

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20. “I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially.”

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21. “Being in love is totally punk rock.”

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22. “Memories are like everything else. They’re a trap.”

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23. “And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we’ll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we’ll rain down on somewhere else.”

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24. “Goodbye forever” is the perfect joke, because forever is impossible. Every night I say it, and every morning I see my father again. Forever is meaningless. Tough talk, an empty threat. Forever is our secret handshake. Our code word. Our decoder ring. Not a measurement of time at all. I know this because “Goodbye Forever” comes easily. The passage of actual time is much more difficult.”

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25. “Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it’s tempting to finally cut something real.”

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26. “I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.”

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27. “The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.”

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28. “When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.”

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29. “I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.”

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30. “Listening to music that I hate calms me down.”

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31. “Romance is all about making a story out of our love.”

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32. “There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

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33. “Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what’s there in someone else’s words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.”

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34. “Before your mother I didn’t spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.”

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35. “I hate trying to put my desire into words when my body knows exactly what to say. Come home.”

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36. “I have loved since you. But when the new paint gets scratched, there you are underneath.”

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37. “I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.”

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38. “Art, he said, isn’t your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.”

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39. “And if words mean something to you, if an idea moves you, aren’t you changed, just a little?”

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40. “Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.”

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41. “There’s something not quite Christian about it,” Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. “I can’t put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn’t seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes.”

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42. “Well, it’s possible to be mentally ill and rational.”

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43. “I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.”

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44. “I know I want love, but I have no idea who will make me happy. Emptiness doesn’t know its own shape.”

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45. “The more things change, the more you still don’t love me.”

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46. “The world isn’t going to end just because we’ve done everything wrong. Though, that would be easier.”

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47. “Looking back on that day, I can’t help but wonder: what if I had brought more bread for the ducks? Did I bring this on myself?”

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48. “People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.”

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49. “Truth and Beauty are wonderful words but shrapnel is shrapnel and at the end of the day I am alone with the things I have done.”

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50. “Nothing can change the way I feel about you. I wish it could.”

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