Top 250 Joss Whedon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

— Joss Whedon

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2. “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

— Joss Whedon

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3. “I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!”

— Joss Whedon

4. “If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.”

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5. “The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.”

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6. “Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”

— Joss Whedon

7. “The news isn’t there to tell you what happened. It’s there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

— Joss Whedon

8. “Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.”

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9. “I’m not a control freak – I’m a control enthusiast.”

— Joss Whedon

10. “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

— Joss Whedon

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11. “If you can’t do something smart, do something right.”

— Joss Whedon

12. “If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl – you find someone to carry you.”

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13. “Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me.”

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14. “So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.”

— Joss Whedon

15. “We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.”

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16. “Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”

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17. “Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”

— Joss Whedon

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18. “The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.”

— Joss Whedon

19. “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

— Joss Whedon

20. “Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.”

— Joss Whedon

21. “Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.”

— Joss Whedon

22. “I cannot abide useless people.”

— Joss Whedon

23. “You can’t take the sky from me.”

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24. “In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.”

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25. “Identity is something that you are constantly earning.”

— Joss Whedon

26. “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”

— Joss Whedon

27. “I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.”

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28. “How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That’s the whole point. I’ll never leave. Not even if you kill me.”

— Joss Whedon

29. “If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.”

— Joss Whedon

30. “We don’t need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.”

— Joss Whedon

31. “Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.”

— Joss Whedon

32. “Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.”

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33. “Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.”

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34. “Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”

— Joss Whedon

35. “People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.”

— Joss Whedon

36. “Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”

— Joss Whedon

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37. “There’s a reason Tony Stark makes fun of ‘Thor,’ and mentions ‘Shakespeare’ in the park in ‘The Avengers.’ It’s great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.”

— Joss Whedon

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38. “Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot.”

— Joss Whedon

39. “The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.’”

— Joss Whedon

40. “Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.”

— Joss Whedon

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41. “You go to movies to see people you love suffer – that’s why you go to the movies. You don’t go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.”

— Joss Whedon

42. “Can’t stop the signal.”

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43. “Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.”

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44. “The more power that we have, the less human we are.”

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45. “I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing.”

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46. “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

— Joss Whedon

47. “Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. But sometimes, there’s a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.”

— Joss Whedon

48. “And by the way it’s not about making money, it’s about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”

— Joss Whedon

49. “Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.”

— Joss Whedon

50. “Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.”

— Joss Whedon