Top 300 Joseph Fink Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.”

— Joseph Fink

102. “You were my baby. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don’t, and anyway they change. They go to high schools, where they learn dangerous things. They grow into adults, and become dangerous things.”

— Joseph Fink

103. “The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”

— Joseph Fink

104. “He doesn’t think of himself as the him that exists in this moment but as the him that will exist soon. He is not far away from the him that he really is. He will be that version of himself very soon.”

— Joseph Fink

105. “You are leaving this story now. You were only an example, and it is probably safer for you not to b erin this story anyway.”

— Joseph Fink

106. “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

107. “Having trouble sleeping? Are you awake at all hours? Do birds live in you? Are you crawling with insects? Is your skin jagged and hard? Are you covered in leaves and gently shaking in the gentle breeze?”

— Joseph Fink

108. “But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilities that were open to us but that we didn’t take.”

— Joseph Fink

109. “The antiques in the window were especially cute, wrestling with each other and playfully snapping at each other’s tails.”

— Joseph Fink

110. “The Moonlite All-Nite was packed, as it always was in the morning. There were few places in town where one could quietly have breakfast in the company of so many other people also quietly having breakfast. 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

111. “Remember, this is America. Vote correctly or never see your loved ones again.”

— Joseph Fink

112. “People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”

— Joseph Fink

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

— Joseph Fink

114. “Hey, listen, I think the Arby’s is hiring. Have you considered that? Their death rate is really low for the area.” But.”

— Joseph Fink

115. “Sometimes it’s okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.”

— Joseph Fink

116. “That’s a simplification. Just because something eventually doesn’t work out doesn’t mean it never worked out. It was working out fine until, not much later, it wasn’t working out at all. Happiness is not canceled out by unhappiness. A relationship is not canceled out by its end.”

— Joseph Fink

117. “Of course, angels do not exist. It is illegal to consider their existence, or even to give them a dollar when they forget bus money and start hovering around the Ralphs asking for change. The great hierarchy of angels is a foolish dream, and anyway is forbidden knowledge to Night Vale citizens. All of the angels in Night Vale live with Josie out by the car lot. There are no angels in Night Vale.”

— Joseph Fink

118. “She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.”

— Joseph Fink

119. “You are only a bad person if you do bad things. That’s not an acquittal. The counterpoint is that you are only a good person if you do good things.”

— Joseph Fink

120. “Not everybody gets to be friends with everybody.”

— Joseph Fink

121. “Diane’s parents are also two different races. It matters which races, but it matters only to Diane and her parents and their family and friends, not to those who do not know them. Not everyone gets to know everything about everybody. Growing.”

— Joseph Fink

122. “I am always going somewhere. Someday I won’t have to go. I will just be in the place that I am.”

— Joseph Fink

123. “Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with manual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders.”

— Joseph Fink

124. “In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.”

— Joseph Fink

125. “Everyone in this town is frightening and friendly and kind and awful. But everyone everywhere is.”

— Joseph Fink

126. “All right, we’re really going to get it right this time. We have been focusing too narrowly, and we realize that. As many of you pointed out, we should have spent less time on the blinking light and more time expanding on the bit about the approaching masked army. So. There is now a great, masked army, coming toward us across the bone-covered plain.”

— Joseph Fink

127. “Get out to Lenny’s for their big grand opening sale. Find eight government secrets and get a free kidnapping and personality reassignment so that you’ll forget you found them!”

— Joseph Fink

128. “We have big dreams – sometimes scary, unforgettable dreams that repeat on the same date every year and are shared by every person in town – but we make those big dreams come true. Remember the clock tower? It took eight years and $23 million to build, and despite its invisibility and constant teleportation, it is a lovely structure that keeps impeccable time.”

— Joseph Fink

129. “What?′ Diane was enjoying listening to Cecil. She loved the end of his show, when he said, ‘Good night, Night Vale, good night.’ No matter how difficult her life was or how troublesome the news he was reporting, his voice and his sign-off put her at such ease.”

— Joseph Fink

130. “Many find it difficult to breathe without the atmosphere but we knew how. We just stopped breathing.”

— Joseph Fink

131. “She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”

— Joseph Fink

132. “Language will evolve irregardless of your attempt to literally lock it away in a secluded tower. Obvs.”

— Joseph Fink

133. “PROVERB: Eating meat is a difficult moral decision, because it’s stolen, that meat. You should apologize.”

— Joseph Fink

134. “Inside her mind was the deep black of the night sky. No stars, no moons or planets, just an infinite darkness from well before Creation, from long after Entropy.”

— Joseph Fink

135. “Troy and I loved each other. We called it ‘unconditional love’, which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated.”

— Joseph Fink

136. “What is terrifying, I think, about the World Government is not that the world is held under an iron fist, but that the world is sand scooped up in a sieve. The people running it have no more idea than us why there are lights in the sky above the Arby’s or why there are ghost cars. Terrifying, right? I think the grand conspiracy of our world is just an argument between idiots.”

— Joseph Fink

137. “This is Night Vale. Our mayor once led an army of masked warriors from another dimension through magic doors to defeat an army of smiling blood-covered office workers. There is definitely, definitely another way.”

— Joseph Fink

138. “They’re all achievable, realistic goals, but by turning objectives into mere fantasies, she never had to go through the trouble of achieving or maintaining them.”

— Joseph Fink

139. “Each day the sun rises and sets. The moon pulls the tides. Our hearts beat. Our loved ones love us back. And we share our inhales and exhales with the great organism that is our tiny planet.”

— Joseph Fink

140. “Josh loved his mother, but he did not know why. Diane loved her son, and she did not care why.”

— Joseph Fink

141. “Josh looks like a lot of things. He changes his physical form constantly. In this way he is unlike most boys his age. He thinks he is several things at once, many of them contradictory. In this way he is like most boys his age.”

— Joseph Fink

142. “It’s a sign of a good diner to have customers who are stuck in time. A well-known rule of eating is that if there are no time-loop customers, the place probably isn’t worth even ordering a plate of fries.”

— Joseph Fink

143. “Catharine, the division head, called a meeting to discuss the pair’s absence. It was mostly practical, as they had work that needed to get done. Someone offered to drive over to their homes to check on them. Catharine said that would be fine.”

— Joseph Fink

144. “You sound like a tree. You are perfectly healthy. Also, you don’t need to sleep. You’re a tree, a very very smart tree. Are you listening to the radio? Is a human assisting you? What plan do you have for our weak species? Please, tree, I beg of you to spare me. Please, tree. Spare me.”

— Joseph Fink

145. “Plus, not casting white people in roles for people of color is the correct thing to do. It’s not a noble or laudable thing to do. It is what you are supposed to do, so we corrected this, by casting a person of color in the role.”

— Joseph Fink

146. “He was looking toward Diane. He was not looking at Diane, but in her vicinity. She could see his pupils. They were not dilated. They were dots. He was looking toward Diane, but his glance seemed to stop just short of where Diane was. He was smiling.”

— Joseph Fink

147. “There was a Taco Bell where people could pee. There was a gas station where people could pee. There were all sorts of things. The mayor was proud of his town.”

— Joseph Fink

148. “A life does not have to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not have to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. But sometimes a person is lucky enough to have a life with all that anyway.”

— Joseph Fink

149. “All this time he had lived for the future. The future had been the firm ground he stood on, and the present was only the slight haze in the air. But now he understood that the future was a joke without a punch line and that whatever he had in the present was what he would always have. He did not have much in the present.”

— Joseph Fink

150. “Hulu Plus: Good for criminals.”

— Joseph Fink