Top 40 Mark Frost Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

2. “Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”

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3. “Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.”

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4. “This ’gargantuan multidimensional clusterfuck.”

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5. “We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that’s willing to give it’s life for us.”

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6. “So being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, then.” “It means you’re scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.”

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7. “Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.”

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8. “I have traveled down this path before – ‘List of Seven’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ both have thematic similarities – but ‘Paladin’ took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell’s Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don’t forget your ball of twine.”

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9. “Don’t make another’s pain the source of your own happiness.”

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10. “For instance, there is no light without darkness – and this troubles many of us – but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this.”

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11. “Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.”

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12. “It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.”

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13. “Sometimes an owl is just an owl.”

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14. “If this is a dream, I’m begging you, don’t ever let them wake me.”

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15. “If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish.”

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16. “Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

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17. “A secret’s only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power – for good or ill – like that, it’s just another piece of information. But a real mystery can’t be solved, not completely. It’s always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can’t know the heart of it, not really. That’s what gives it value: It can’t be cracked, it’s bigger than you and me, bigger than everything we know.”

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18. “Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.”

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19. “The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.”

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20. “Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot.”

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21. “Look, dudes, we didn’t come this far down the rabbit hole to stop on the one-yard line in the middle of like Nazi headquarters,” said Nick. “Did we?” “No, but if you tried, you could probably mix a few more metaphors,” said Elise.”

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22. “But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?”

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23. “A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.”

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24. “Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.”

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25. “A core fundamental of human existence is wonder – and its analogue is fear. You can’t have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.”

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26. “Life is what it is, a gift that is given to us for a time – like a library book – that must eventually be returned. How should we treat this book? If we are able to remember that it is not ours to begin with – one that we’re entrusted with, to care for, to study and learn from – perhaps it would change the way we treat it while it’s in our possession.”

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27. “Metaphors are beautiful ways of speaking about the truth. So are facts.”

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28. “We all want answers to the big questions.”

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29. “A traveller learns more than a passenger.”

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30. “Actually, science has determined that a flipped coin is not strictly a fifty-fifty proposition,” said Ajay. “Surprisingly, the coin will return to whichever side you’re holding faceup in your hand before it is flipped, exactly fifty-one percent of the time.”

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31. “He wants us to think for ourselves, without fear of ridicule or judgment. He wants us to make up our minds and ignore what the rest of the world is saying. Pay no attention to fads or fashions, and listen, always, to the voice of your innermost self. Learning who you are is your primary task. There are no mistakes in life, as far as Emerson’s concerned, only lessons. Once you master one lesson, you move on to the next. And the only place you can learn is right now. In the everlasting present.”

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32. “What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?”

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33. “The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won’t get back in the bottle.”

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34. “This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn’t want me on a cross-country team; I’d end up on Ripley’s Believe It or Not.”

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35. “Storytellers don’t run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

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36. “Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!”

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37. “Don’t get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven’t completely broken ’em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.”

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38. “Getting hung up on ‘how’ is just the stupid part of your brain throwing a tantrum because it feels left out.”

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39. “In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.”

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40. “There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.”

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41. “Twin Peaks – my first visit, charming place, as you’ve always told me, but to be honest, Chief, I’m a big-city girl and always will be.”

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42. “Little bitty thing? Dude, you didn’t see her go straight-up psycho. She’s like a hella honey badger.”

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43. “So chalk up one plus for Nordic weather: It helped you get where you were going a whole lot faster.”

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