Top 250 Joss Whedon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Stay crunchy, even in milk.”

— Joss Whedon

52. “Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don’t happen to like frozen yogurt do you? I love it! You’re kidding! What a crazy, random happenstance!”

— Joss Whedon

53. “Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.”

— Joss Whedon

54. “You can’t just throw people at all your problems, dear.”

— Joss Whedon

55. “Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?”

— Joss Whedon

56. “The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.”

— Joss Whedon

57. “I am a great believer in found families and I’m not a great believer in blood.”

— Joss Whedon

58. “Time is what turns kittens into cats.”

— Joss Whedon

59. “Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”

— Joss Whedon

60. “Obsession is beautiful. It’s what makes art.”

— Joss Whedon

61. “I think it’s always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it’s successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.”

— Joss Whedon

62. “I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.”

— Joss Whedon

63. “We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you’ve actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.”

— Joss Whedon

64. “I don’t write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don’t have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it’s bent doesn’t actually register. It’s the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.”

— Joss Whedon

65. “Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.”

— Joss Whedon

66. “People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There’s nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.”

— Joss Whedon

67. “A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend.”

— Joss Whedon

68. “You either have to write or you shouldn’t be writing. That’s all.”

— Joss Whedon

69. “If you’re going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God’s sake.”

— Joss Whedon

70. “If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap – not just to avoid the idea of dying, it’s to fill some particular gap in ourselves.”

— Joss Whedon

71. “The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it.”

— Joss Whedon

72. “You get hurt, hurt ’em back. You get killed, walk it off.”

— Joss Whedon

73. “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

— Joss Whedon

74. “You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.”

— Joss Whedon

75. “Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there’s no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there is. What we do. Now. Today.”

— Joss Whedon

76. “Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.”

— Joss Whedon

77. “Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It’s the best.”

— Joss Whedon

78. “Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that’s what life is like, that’s what interests me.”

— Joss Whedon

79. “I love to write. I love it. I mean there’s nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it.”

— Joss Whedon

80. “I don’t have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.”

— Joss Whedon

81. “No one’s going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.”

— Joss Whedon

82. “A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.”

— Joss Whedon

83. “I don’t think that I can change the world, I just want to punch it up a little.”

— Joss Whedon

84. “Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don’t know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn’t do either. Maybe I’m the one who should decide!”

— Joss Whedon

85. “You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.”

— Joss Whedon

86. “Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you’re in a relationship, and it’s all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you’re married, it’s about hiding your sins.”

— Joss Whedon

87. “There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”

— Joss Whedon

88. “You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”

— Joss Whedon

89. “I mean, I knew I wasn’t a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!”

— Joss Whedon

90. “They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.”

— Joss Whedon

91. “Okay, uh, I’m lost. I’m angry. And I’m armed.”

— Joss Whedon

92. “In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?”

— Joss Whedon

93. “Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.”

— Joss Whedon

94. “Doctor, I’m taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.”

— Joss Whedon

95. “I’m working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received.”

— Joss Whedon

96. “To accept duality is to earn identity.”

— Joss Whedon

97. “Life’s a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts.”

— Joss Whedon

98. “The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.”

— Joss Whedon

99. “Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I’m a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous, green rage monster.”

— Joss Whedon

100. “Love is for children. I owe him a debt.”

— Joss Whedon