Top 300 Joseph Fink Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.”

— Joseph Fink

2. “Remember: If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.”

— Joseph Fink

3. “Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is so small. And yet it is.”

— Joseph Fink

4. “The desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.”

— Joseph Fink

5. “There is power in being unremembered, in being overlooked. You should remember that power. People who aren’t seen can see and hear all.”

— Joseph Fink

6. “People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.”

— Joseph Fink

7. “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because on one side was everything she had ever known and on the other side was a future, maybe, and even though she was afraid to leave everything she had ever known, she also wanted a future, maybe, and so hesitating, and then not, and then moving quickly, running, sprinting, even, desperate, she crossed, and found a future, maybe, leaving behind everything she had ever known.”

— Joseph Fink

8. “Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.”

— Joseph Fink

9. “We are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?”

— Joseph Fink

10. “All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.”

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11. “Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness.”

— Joseph Fink

12. “We are skipping Friday this week, but we’ll make up for it by having Double Friday next week. Mark your schedules.”

— Joseph Fink

13. “There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting than doing that same quiet action in parallel with fellow humans doing the same action, everyone alone next to each other.”

— Joseph Fink

14. “Grey men in grey suits going greyly about the tedious business of running the world.”

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15. “The sky once loved a certain rock. Bur millennia of erosion transformed the rock to dust. The sky, not understanding, still signals for its friend who abandoned it. The rock never knew about the sky. The rock only loved the wind that was slowly eroding it.”

— Joseph Fink

16. “Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?”

— Joseph Fink

17. “Comfort was the answer to all life’s problems. It didn’t solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. “You.”

— Joseph Fink

18. “Beyond the window was the parking lot and beyond that the desert, and beyond that the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Layered.”

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19. “Everything is exciting, particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all.”

— Joseph Fink

20. “It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”

— Joseph Fink

21. “She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”

— Joseph Fink

22. “In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”

— Joseph Fink

23. “We must continue to fight and resist. We must be the heroes we look for in others. We must no longer speak in code, but in action.”

— Joseph Fink

24. “Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.”

— Joseph Fink

25. “Pain is just weakness leaving the body, and then being replaced by pain. Lots of pain.”

— Joseph Fink

26. “And a big thank-you to local scientist, certified genius, and, oh yeah, my boyfriend, Carlos, who came by earlier to explain clouds. Need something explained in language that for all you know could be scientific? Feel free to drop by Carlos’s lab. Sometimes he’ll be there. Sometimes it’s date night, and he’s with me. I am his boyfriend. I don’t know if I mentioned that.”

— Joseph Fink

27. “Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy.”

— Joseph Fink

28. “You have always been important. You have always been something. Age just reveals the facts that always were, Dana. Experience uncovers the you that always was.”

— Joseph Fink

29. “Reports also indicate that the Night Vale Private Library will be entirely free of librarians, a fact that will be of little comfort to the many public library-goers who are injured or killed in librarian maulings every year.”

— Joseph Fink

30. “All luck runs out eventually. Otherwise it wouldn’t be luck.”

— Joseph Fink

31. “Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”

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32. “I’m sorry that it was this way, Mom. Not sorry like an apology. I’m sorry as in sorrow.”

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33. “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the dead return. Because light reverses. Because the sky is a gap. Because it’s a shout. Because light reverses. Because the dead return. Because footsteps on the ceiling. Because footsteps in the basement. Because the sky is a shout. Because it’s a gap. Because the grass doesn’t grow, or grows too much, or grows wrong. Because the dead return. Because the dead return. That – that – is why the chicken crosses the road.”

— Joseph Fink

34. “Clocks and calendars don’t work in Night Vale. Time itself doesn’t work.”

— Joseph Fink

35. “If a point of view becomes one’s entire identity, what was monstrous on the inside can become monstrous on the outside.”

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36. “Act natural. Act like all of nature. Act like the entire cycle of life and death and change and rebirth.”

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37. “Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.”

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38. “A story never stands on its own, but exists in the context of the storyteller.”

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39. “It felt like illness, but it was only existence.”

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40. “Mostly we don’t get destroyed,” John said. “Mostly we destroy ourselves.” Another.”

— Joseph Fink

41. “You’re a good one, Jackie Fierro,” they said. “And that makes the world a dangerous place for you.”

— Joseph Fink

42. “The American Southwest is nature’s surrealist masterpiece.”

— Joseph Fink

43. “Weird at last. Weird at last. God Almighty, weird at last.”

— Joseph Fink

44. “I’m not afraid,” she declared, and she wasn’t. She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”

— Joseph Fink

45. “We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.”

— Joseph Fink

46. “Nice people are not good at being direct. Nice people do not like to make others feel rushed or indebted or insulted. Nice people like to make others feel nice.”

— Joseph Fink

47. “But a person doesn’t need experience or knowledge of something to have opinions about it. It turns out all they need for that are opinions.”

— Joseph Fink

48. “Don’t worry. Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting. Don’t worry.”

— Joseph Fink

49. “She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.”

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50. “You say your life is unraveling. Your life cannot unravel. Your life is your life. You haven’t lost it. It’s just different now.” “Do.”

— Joseph Fink