Top 40 Johnny Rich Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.”

— Johnny Rich

2. “You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.”

— Johnny Rich

3. “Nothing’s random. Even if it looks that way, it’s just because you don’t know the causes.”

— Johnny Rich

4. “This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”

— Johnny Rich

5. “To talk of probability is to suggest that events might happen differently from the way they do, whereas events themselves will unfold according to an inevitable path.”

— Johnny Rich

6. “Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?”

— Johnny Rich

7. “The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love.”

— Johnny Rich

8. “Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.”

— Johnny Rich

9. “But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he’s right?”

— Johnny Rich

10. “Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering.”

— Johnny Rich

11. “To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.”

— Johnny Rich

12. “In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.”

— Johnny Rich

13. “He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing.”

— Johnny Rich

14. “So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.”

— Johnny Rich

15. “Leo is looking down. Leo is looking down and his eyes and skin and hair like dark melted chocolate and he’s saying to me, “Hello.”

— Johnny Rich

16. “He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.”

— Johnny Rich

17. “Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.”

— Johnny Rich

18. “The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.”

— Johnny Rich

19. “Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.”

— Johnny Rich

20. “I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.”

— Johnny Rich

21. “Silent is an anagram of listen.”

— Johnny Rich

22. “There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine.”

— Johnny Rich

23. “A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.”

— Johnny Rich

24. “I can make another list because the choice is mine. A list of what to do. So I won’t be listless ever again.”

— Johnny Rich

25. “Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”

— Johnny Rich

26. “I’m a bit-part actor in my own life.”

— Johnny Rich

27. “The future is certain. It is just not known.”

— Johnny Rich

28. “To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”

— Johnny Rich

29. “I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.”

— Johnny Rich

30. “A good book is not the same as a successful one.”

— Johnny Rich

31. “The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects.”

— Johnny Rich

32. “I stare out at the real world projected on the windows.”

— Johnny Rich

33. “I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.”

— Johnny Rich

34. “That small difference made all the difference.”

— Johnny Rich

35. “Rejection is no badge of honour.”

— Johnny Rich

36. “Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book.”

— Johnny Rich

37. “To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.”

— Johnny Rich

38. “Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.”

— Johnny Rich

39. “An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.”

— Johnny Rich

40. “People don’t always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.”

— Johnny Rich

41. “So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?”

— Johnny Rich

42. “Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?”

— Johnny Rich

43. “As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.”

— Johnny Rich

44. “His suffering was no more real than he was.”

— Johnny Rich

45. “Actors,” he says, “should only be superficial on the surface.”

— Johnny Rich

46. “Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.”

— Johnny Rich