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Top 25 Nathan Filer Quotes (2025 Update)

Nathan Filer Quote: “I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.”

1. “I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.”

2. “When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn’t want.”

3. “Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn’t want.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.”

4. “Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “She’s known sadness, and it has made her kind.”

5. “She’s known sadness, and it has made her kind.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.”

6. “You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”

7. “Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I need to slow down because I want to explain how my world slowed down. I also need to talk about how life has a shape and a size, and how it can be made to fit into something small – like a house.”

8. “I need to slow down because I want to explain how my world slowed down. I also need to talk about how life has a shape and a size, and how it can be made to fit into something small – like a house.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Billions of years ago exploding stars sent atoms hurtling through space and we’ve been recycling them on Earth ever since. Except for the occasional comet, meteor, some interstellar dust, we’ve used exactly the same atoms over and over since the earth was formed. We eat them, we drink them, we breathe them, we are made of them. At this precise moment each of us is exchanging our atoms with everyone else, and not just with each other, but with other animals, trees, fungi, moulds...”

9. “Billions of years ago exploding stars sent atoms hurtling through space and we’ve been recycling them on Earth ever since. Except for the occasional comet, meteor, some interstellar dust, we’ve used exactly the same atoms over and over since the earth was formed. We eat them, we drink them, we breathe them, we are made of them. At this precise moment each of us is exchanging our atoms with everyone else, and not just with each other, but with other animals, trees, fungi, moulds...”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Words like guilt and shame and nightmares – the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there.”

10. “Words like guilt and shame and nightmares – the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.”

11. “But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock in his garden, and the boy’s dad was watching him heave and sweat and struggle, but get nowhere. Eventually the dad asks, ‘Why don’t you use all of your strength?’ And the boy says, ‘I am, Daddy. I am using all of my strength.’ And his dad says, ‘No you’re not. You haven’t asked me for help.”

12. “He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock in his garden, and the boy’s dad was watching him heave and sweat and struggle, but get nowhere. Eventually the dad asks, ‘Why don’t you use all of your strength?’ And the boy says, ‘I am, Daddy. I am using all of my strength.’ And his dad says, ‘No you’re not. You haven’t asked me for help.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I nestled into the nook of Mum’s arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She’s all bones and hard edges. She’s never been comfortable, but she’s always been there.”

13. “I nestled into the nook of Mum’s arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She’s all bones and hard edges. She’s never been comfortable, but she’s always been there.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make you want to forget – keep it safe somewhere.”

14. “Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make you want to forget – keep it safe somewhere.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.”

15. “I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.”

16. “Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.”

17. “Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Any punishment is an insult to the crime.”

18. “Any punishment is an insult to the crime.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are. I guess that’s what turning eighteen means.”

19. “I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are. I guess that’s what turning eighteen means.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.”

20. “These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.”

21. “If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I think there are as many versions of a story as there are people who read it.”

22. “I think there are as many versions of a story as there are people who read it.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I don’t want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

23. “I don’t want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I listened in the spaces between words.”

24. “I listened in the spaces between words.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “I can only describe reality as I know it. I’m doing my best, and promise to keep trying. Shake on it.”

25. “I can only describe reality as I know it. I’m doing my best, and promise to keep trying. Shake on it.”

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Nathan Filer Quote: “Most of life isn’t anything. Most of life is just the passing of time, and we’re even asleep for a fair chunk of that.”

26. “Most of life isn’t anything. Most of life is just the passing of time, and we’re even asleep for a fair chunk of that.”

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