Top 30 Neil Hilborn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am just carbon and bad timing.”

— Neil Hilborn

2. “I am not saying you will find the meaning of life in other people. I am saying that other people are the life to which you provide the meaning.”

— Neil Hilborn

3. “The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas.”

— Neil Hilborn

4. “So now we’re here and we are not dead, and Mom, what’s more punk rock than living despite all that which has tried to make you not?”

— Neil Hilborn

5. “Happy people don’t make history. Happy people make children, then die.”

— Neil Hilborn

6. “I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”

— Neil Hilborn

7. “That parallel parking is like making love but more difficult and in public.”

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8. “Yes, there is a place where someone loves you both before and after they learn what you are.”

— Neil Hilborn

9. “I will have fun like my life depends on it cause it does.”

— Neil Hilborn

10. “Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all. I’ve got to go somewhere. I’ve got to go. It.”

— Neil Hilborn

11. “I wanna go away until I’m gone. It takes so much less energy to not exist than it does to exist and get burned.”

— Neil Hilborn

12. “I wanna thank you for making all the love songs mean something again.”

— Neil Hilborn

13. “You will never be more wrong than the first time you say “I love you.” You will mean it, sure, but you’ll still be lying.”

— Neil Hilborn

14. “You no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day.”

— Neil Hilborn

15. “I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now.”

— Neil Hilborn

16. “When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”

— Neil Hilborn

17. “This is what it’s like to say goodnight and mean goodbye.”

— Neil Hilborn

18. “The Future has been at war, but it’s coming home so soon; the future is the map and the treasure; the future looks like a child in a cape; the future is just like gravity: everyone is slowly drifting toward everyone else. We are all going to be part of each other one day...”

— Neil Hilborn

19. “Now I just think about who else is kissing her. I can’t breathe because he only kisses her once. He doesn’t care if its perfect.”

— Neil Hilborn

20. “I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave.”

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21. “She imagines me full of dead things, re-consuming that which I am trying to grow out of.”

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22. “Maybe things happen for a reason but that reason is stupid... I am a flat tire and you are a pothole full of lug nuts. I am a pile of bricks and you are holding a sledgehammer, which is to say I would not exist without you.”

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23. “This is what it’s like to buy the wrong kind of flowers. This is what it’s like to read your lover’s mail and find they are doing nothing wrong. Have you ever set a field on fire and called it a birthday candle? Have you ever punished a dog because you trained it wrong? This is what it’s like to build a wall in your living room.”

— Neil Hilborn

24. “When you’re dumb enough for long enough, you’re gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they’re gonna love you anyway, and its gonna go so poorly.”

— Neil Hilborn

25. “I have to tell you what’s at stake here: when we were young, we were both in relationships that we thought would never end, not like I will love you even when it goes dark, more like It’s so dark out there. How could you survive without me? People have taken so much from me that I don’t know how I’m not gone.”

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26. “It’s unfortunate that your offspring make people wish for a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a universally beloved form of birth control, but when elderly women literally everywhere are better parents than you, perhaps it’s time to hang up the baby-making spurs.”

— Neil Hilborn

27. “Humans always want something from you and he and I would just rather be together than apart, and I pulled him toward me, and he chitterred in the way that always meant he was wind coming in after the rain. His head fell forward, and there was so much less light in the room.”

— Neil Hilborn

28. “Tomorrow is a lease I have to sign every morning.”

— Neil Hilborn

29. “I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren’t just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector. We.”

— Neil Hilborn

30. “I think I am only still here because I was too scared to make the first cut.”

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31. “Kid, you’ll be fine.”

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32. “Flight is just a fall that never reaches the ground.”

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33. “I never cry at things outside of my head because they all seem so far away.”

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34. “I am not helping because I have already assumed so much, and I would rather let her suffer than be wrong.”

— Neil Hilborn