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Top 20 Kat Dunn Quotes (2026 Update)

Kat Dunn Quote: “Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves.”

1. “Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I caught sight of myself in a mirror as I went downstairs and my heart sank. A beautiful dress on an ugly woman still made an ugly woman.”

2. “I caught sight of myself in a mirror as I went downstairs and my heart sank. A beautiful dress on an ugly woman still made an ugly woman.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I don’t understand love,′ I said, submerging the cloth in the water. ‘I don’t know how it works or what it is for. I’ve read poetry and novels and listened to music and viewed art all about love but it was like another language. I thought it must be something that wasn’t meant for me. Until I met you.”

3. “I don’t understand love,′ I said, submerging the cloth in the water. ‘I don’t know how it works or what it is for. I’ve read poetry and novels and listened to music and viewed art all about love but it was like another language. I thought it must be something that wasn’t meant for me. Until I met you.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

4. “It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “If the world offers me no kindness, then I will take from it armor and sword, create an unassailable fortress for myself, and lock the door.”

5. “If the world offers me no kindness, then I will take from it armor and sword, create an unassailable fortress for myself, and lock the door.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “Desire was falling off a cliff, and trusting you would not die. Desire was walking through fire and being reborn. Desire was an undoing. I was undone.”

6. “Desire was falling off a cliff, and trusting you would not die. Desire was walking through fire and being reborn. Desire was an undoing. I was undone.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over.”

7. “The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “Disappointment tells us what we truly wanted. And to want is to be alive.”

8. “Disappointment tells us what we truly wanted. And to want is to be alive.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “Loneliness had lost its power over me, and all that was left, was love.”

9. “Loneliness had lost its power over me, and all that was left, was love.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all.”

10. “Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I learned quickly that my wants and needs were unwelcome, too great for any reasonable person to fulfill, and in time I came to agree with her. I was too much, too loud, too emotional, too clumsy, too self-involved. My existence was a burden to all involved with it, and I resolved to never make any demand if I could help it.”

11. “I learned quickly that my wants and needs were unwelcome, too great for any reasonable person to fulfill, and in time I came to agree with her. I was too much, too loud, too emotional, too clumsy, too self-involved. My existence was a burden to all involved with it, and I resolved to never make any demand if I could help it.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I kneeled in a graveyard and told myself it was paradise.”

12. “I kneeled in a graveyard and told myself it was paradise.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “This is the bargain I have struck. To lose my softness in exchange for survival.”

13. “This is the bargain I have struck. To lose my softness in exchange for survival.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I want; it is a new and thrilling revelation. I can want, and it will not destroy me.”

14. “I want; it is a new and thrilling revelation. I can want, and it will not destroy me.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I had sown the seeds of love in grave dirt; who could say what monstrous bloom would grow?”

15. “I had sown the seeds of love in grave dirt; who could say what monstrous bloom would grow?”

Kat Dunn Quote: “None of us deserve our bad fortune, but that does not stop it from coming.”

16. “None of us deserve our bad fortune, but that does not stop it from coming.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I wonder for what you hunger and whether you allow yourself to feel it.”

17. “I wonder for what you hunger and whether you allow yourself to feel it.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “If you are a monster it is only because they have made you one.”

18. “If you are a monster it is only because they have made you one.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I wanted to be near her light. Even though she cast me in its shadow.”

19. “I wanted to be near her light. Even though she cast me in its shadow.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I hated her because I did not understand what it was that I had lost before I saw it in her.”

20. “I hated her because I did not understand what it was that I had lost before I saw it in her.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”

21. “To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I remember only the sense that the whole world passed before me, and yet I belonged nowhere in it.”

22. “I remember only the sense that the whole world passed before me, and yet I belonged nowhere in it.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “She hadn’t been perfect. She hadn’t even been easy. But she had been mine.”

23. “She hadn’t been perfect. She hadn’t even been easy. But she had been mine.”

Kat Dunn Quote: “I furl myself in the quilt like an oyster in its shell with no pearl to show for the grit that works through it.”

24. “I furl myself in the quilt like an oyster in its shell with no pearl to show for the grit that works through it.”

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