Top 40 Michael Thomas Ford Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

2. “Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn’t the best way to start your day.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

3. “Once you realise there’s nothing to be afraid of when you die, there’s nothing else to worry about.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

4. “That’s what people do. Kill the things they’re afraid of.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

5. “So now I’m thinking about it. I’m imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, “I’m gay.” And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don’t have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

6. “No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can’t remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you’re trying to suck air through a straw.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

7. “That sounds so weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don’t think suicide is. It’s my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don’t think it’s a sin.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

8. “I’m tired of people thinking they’re doing me favours.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

9. “I knew people were talking, but I wasn’t listening. I wasn’t interested in anything anyone had to say.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

10. “If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

11. “People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don’t.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

12. “When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

13. “That sounds weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

14. “I read once that a third of all gay kids try to kill themselves. They say it’s because being gay is so hard in this world. They say that we won’t stop trying to kill ourselves until more people understand us, and until we live in a world where it’s okay for a guy to love another guy. That’s probably true. But there will never be a world where it’s okay to fall in love with your best friend’s boyfriend.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

15. “Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

16. “Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can’t it just be something that happens?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

17. “No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you’re all tragic.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

18. “Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

19. “Anyone can be crazy. That’s usually just because there’s something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

20. “I know all about dreams that make you want to scream.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

21. “I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn’t really make up for being screwed up in the first place. It was just the consolation prize – you got the great costume and the invisible jet for being a loser in everything else.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

22. “I swear, sometimes it feels like there’s this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I’m sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I’m thinking about bears.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

23. “And it’s not like I’ve never jacked off. I’m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn’t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one’s that stupid.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

24. “I have to keep her in line somehow or she’ll think she’s the boss of everything.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

25. “But he’d never been in love. He knew that was what he was really asking himself. He’d never given himself to someone else completely. He’d always held something back, even if he hadn’t known that he was doing it. He’d reserved the deepest part of him, the part that truly was him, because he’d feared that once he gave it away he would never get it back.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

26. “It’s like whoever sits up ther in Heaven had this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and it makes everything go crazy, like fairy dust that’s past its expiration date.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

27. “So that’s it. That’s the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year’s eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don’t know all the detatils, just the basics. She took a bunch of pills. I don’t know what they were or where she got them. I’d like to think they were Wonder Drug. Then at least she could have gone thinking she was flying.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

28. “She laughed. “Welcome to Camp Meds,” She said. “Where the campers are crazy and the counselors want you to take drugs.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

29. “He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

30. “I didn’t ask to be saved.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

31. “Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

32. “I mean, if I’m going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

33. “I didn’t do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that’s the difference between crazy and not crazy.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

34. “Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

35. “People still think what you look like is who you are.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

36. “He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

37. “What are you scared of?” he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. “Everything,” I told him. “I’m scared of everything.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

38. “They don’t like it when you end things the way you want to and don’t wait for the way it’s “supposed” to happen. What if suicide is the way it’s supposed to happen? Do they ever think of that?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

39. “I’m just saying that sometimes forgetting how much things hurt makes you do them again. And that’s not always such a hot idea.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

40. “It’s sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn’t falling in love a lot like losing your head?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

41. “I feel like I’m always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I’d like to be able to just let go and fall.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

42. “Even though I’ve changed a lot in here, I’m going back to a world that hasn’t changed.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

43. “Just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck.”

— Michael Thomas Ford