Top 120 Morgan Matson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity.”

— Morgan Matson

2. “A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”

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3. “It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.”

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4. “And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need – love is all there is.”

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5. “Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”

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6. “We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along. – Roger Sullivan.”

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7. “You’ve got to have pride in your home. You are where you’re from. Otherwise, you’re always going to be lost.”

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8. “Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”

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9. “Once, I dared to dare greatly.”

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10. “I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”

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11. “Nothing worth doing is easy,” frank said. “Especially not in the beginning. But I’m not about to give up.”

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12. “It will be scary. But I know you can do it. Know that I’ll be with you, if there’s any way that I can manage it. And know that I have always -and will, for always- love you.”

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13. “All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”

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14. “The thing is that people only get hurt – really hurt – when they’re trying to play it safe. That’s when people get injured, when they pull back at the last second because they’re scared. They hurt themselves and other people.”

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15. “Looking at it, I got, for the first time, why people would bring flowers to sick people, stuck inside the hospital with no way to get outside. It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”

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16. “The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for them.”

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17. “They didn’t dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.”

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18. “I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention.”

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19. “I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.”

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20. “Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends... but in the end, it’s just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It’s better, really, to learn it early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.” He sighed then and slumped back against the wall once more. “Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.”

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21. “I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”

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22. “I somehow knew that the particulars didn’t matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”

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23. “I’d found out that when you’re never going to see someone again, it’s not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you’re never going to be able to say anything else to them, and you’re left with an eternal unfinished conversation.”

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24. “There sometimes isn’t much difference between a knight’s quest and a fool’s errand.”

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25. “Ad astra per aspera. It’s the Kansas state motto,” he said to Roger and me, “To the stars through adversity.”

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26. “As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.”

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27. “You can always find your way out, no matter how lost you are.”

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28. “Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends... but in the end, it’s just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It’s better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.”

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29. “You’re the brightest thing in the room,” he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. “You shine.”

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30. “In a well-ordered universe... camping would take place indoors.”

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31. “It’s always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”

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32. “In a well-ordered universe...”

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33. “But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around – it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.”

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34. “If you like everything, that’s basically just saying that you don’t really like anything.”

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35. “I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.”

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36. “I knew the answer to thay immediately. It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark and seeing the view. It was scary and safe and peaceful and exciting, all at the same time. It was the way I felt when I was with him. “Like a well-ordered universe.”

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37. “It seemed like the second you tried to tell someone why you loved someone else, it took the luster off it, like pinning a butterfly down in a case – it never quite captured it.”

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38. “It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm – your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it’s borrowed time, and that it will be over all too soon.”

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39. “I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew I wasn’t going to figure it out without coffee.”

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40. “The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her. -Roger Sullivan.”

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41. “You have to try. You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail – especially if you fail – come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation... ‘Once, I dared to dare greatly.”

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42. “If you don’t feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won’t be able to tell the difference. – Bronwyn.”

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43. “If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your hearts desire, you never really lost it to begin with.”

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44. “And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to.”

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45. “I miss her so much, you know,′ he said, his voice wobbling. ‘Every day. Even now I’m always thinking about things I want to tell her. Stuff she’d find funny. I didn’t even know what I was doing that first year. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”

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46. “But you have a heart that is big and beautiful and strong, and deserves to be shared with someone worthy. You get some perspective when you know you’re not going to get to flip a new month on the calendar. And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need – love is all there is.”

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47. “It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.”

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48. “Because, it would have been cheating, in a way. You don’t get to freeze the picture when you want it. It would have been living in the past and eventually, you just start doing the same jokes over and over again.”

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49. “I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.”

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50. “There weren‘t enough tears to cry.”

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