Top 300 Joseph Fink Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “And yes, you will die, but probably not until everyone you know is already dead too. Your parents, your friends, your pets, each death leaving a small but irreparable scar on your not yet still, still-beating heart. The living tell the dying not to leave and the dying do not listen. The dying tell us not to be sad for them and we do not listen. The dialogue between the living and the dead is full of misunderstanding and.”

— Joseph Fink

52. “It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler.”

— Joseph Fink

53. “One day we will destroy the moon with indifference!”

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54. “She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”

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55. “Skin is a necessary evil.”

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56. “Your existence is not impossible, but it’s also not very likely.”

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57. “The moon is a trick of light suggested to us by the seas, the house thought.”

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58. “The search for truth takes us to dangerous places,” said Old Woman Josie. “Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.”

— Joseph Fink

59. “I am glad I met you,′ they said. ‘I think I loved you. I don’t know if I can feel something as uncomplicated as love anymore. But I know that there are moments I’m still experiencing in which I love you. I don’t think you will see me again. But know that I am always seeing you, at every moment we had together, forever.”

— Joseph Fink

60. “You turn to me and ask, “Do you ever think about suicide?” I look away from you and close my eyes, eat the raspberries to confuse the blood in my mouth.”

— Joseph Fink

61. “Cecil Palmer spoke of the horrors of everyday life. Nearly every broadcast told a story of impending doom or death, or worse: a long life lived in fruitless fear of doom or death. It wasn’t that Jackie wanted to know all of the bad news of the world. It was that she loved sitting in the dark of her bedroom, swaddled in blankets and invisible radio waves.”

— Joseph Fink

62. “Angels are tall, genderless beings who are all named Erika.”

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63. “When life seems dangerous and unmanageable, just remember that it is, and that you can’t survive forever.”

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64. “Listeners, look past the things you think you see. Move your head just a touch to the left. A glance in a world of perspectives. And then you might see it. An entire universe in the corner of your eye.”

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65. “Plus, it is basic human nature to treat polite people worse than rude people. It is easier to assert dominance over a person unlikely to fight back with much force. Rude people tend to fight hard, and it’s not worth stirring them up.”

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66. “None of us knows what we want to do when we’re his age. When we’re your age, when you’re my age,” said Diane, “any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we’re right, but only ever in retrospect.” Her.”

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67. “To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.”

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68. “Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”

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69. “Pepsi: Drink Coke.”

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70. “If you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun, and you will, coincidentally, die.”

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71. “Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else,” said Josie, “and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.”

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72. “You know, they always say, “If you’re trying to meet someone, you may never find them. But it’s when you’re not looking, that’s when they find you.” I’ve always heard this in reference to government agents, but I think it applies to dating as well.”

— Joseph Fink

73. “Some mysteries aren’t questions to be answered but just a kind of opaque fact, a thing which exists to be not known.”

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74. “Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don’t become a statistic.”

— Joseph Fink

75. “You won’t sleep when you’re dead, either.”

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76. “In other news, a man in a tan jacket, holding a deerskin suitcase, was seen. I don’t remember anything about him or why this was news, but it had seemed important a the time. I wrote it down: ‘Say the important thing about the man in the tan jacket.’ What was it? What was I supposed to say?”

— Joseph Fink

77. “Most people in Night Vale know there is information that is forbidden or unavailable, which is almost all information. Most people in Night Vale get by with a cobbled-together framework of lies and assumptions and conspiracy theories. Diane was like most people. Most people are.”

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78. “Like any reasonable human, I do not like harming innocent people, but like any reasonable human, I do not consider the wealthy to be innocent people.”

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79. “There are a lot of things we don’t understand about orange juice, the house thought.”

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80. “Night Vale, my sweet and only Night Vale, may you find love. May you find it wherever it’s been hidden. May you find who has been hiding it and extract revenge upon them.”

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81. “She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”

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82. “I sing the body electric. I gasp the body organic. I miss the body remembered.”

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83. “Wednesday is Smell Like a Pirate Day. Everyone in town is encouraged to get in on the wacky fun by not bathing for weeks and rubbing yourself with ash and blood.”

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84. “When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST.”

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85. “As the old saying went: “Not all windowless vans have residential surveillance equipment.”

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86. “If you looked at any single word in the English language close enough, you would see within the great glowing coils of the universe unwinding.”

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87. “The Night Vale PTA released a statement today saying that if the School Board could not promise to prevent children from learning about dangerous activities like drug use and library science during recess periods, they would be blocking all school entrances with their bodies. They pulled hundreds of bodies out from trucks, saying, “We own all of these bodies and we will not hesitate to use them to create great flesh barricades if that is what it takes to prevent our children from learning.”

— Joseph Fink

88. “What did Diane know about this? What was her connection? Could she be the mastermind behind the blond man and the man in the tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase and maybe even Jackie’s mother’s strange behavior?”

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89. “The search for truth takes us to dangerous places,” said Old Woman Josie. “Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library.”

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90. “Your body is a temple. A temple of blood rituals and pagan tributes, a lost temple, a temple that needs more calcium. You should maybe try vitamin supplements.”

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91. “At your smallest components, you are indistinguishable from a forest fire.”

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92. “Maybe you’re too young to understand this, but you don’t just run after people because you want to know what their deal is.”

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93. “Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with mutual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders. In Diane’s case, this was easy, as she was not a very social or public person, and most any mundane thing in her life could be a secret. In Josh’s case this was hard, because for teenagers most every mundane thing in their lives is a secret that they do not like sharing in front of their parents.”

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94. “Maybe she had come into existence seconds ago and had made up every moment until this moment to explain how she came to be sitting in this booth in this diner.”

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95. “We wake up. We move on. No state is our state forever. All is fleeting.”

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96. “Sunday morning the Night Vale PTA will be holding a raffle. Tickets are only $2 each, and the winner, as usual, will never be heard from again.”

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97. “A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It’s like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!”

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98. “Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain. But it does make the possibility for future happiness seem dimmer. Every good moment is shadowed by the question of that moment’s longevity.”

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99. “Valentine’s Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.”

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100. “The only way to be brave is to first be afraid.”

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