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Top 450 Ocean Vuong Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ocean Vuong Quote: “And because I am your son, I said, “Sorry.” Because I am your son, my apology had become, by then, an extension of myself. It was my Hello.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “He closes his eyes. This is my superpower, he thinks: to make a dark even darker than what’s around me. He stops crying.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air – and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “What if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Cleopatra saw the same sunset. Ain’t that crazy? Like everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Despite my vocabulary, my books, knowledge, I find myself folded against the far wall, bereft. I watch two daughters care for their own with an inertia equal to gravity. I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at least, teach me how to touch my dead.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The thing is, I don’t want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don’t want my happiness to be othered. They’re both mine. I made them, damnit. What if the elation I feel is not another “bipolar episode” but something I fought hard for?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “There are no animals here but us.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Unicorns stamping in a graveyard.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “They will tell you that great writing “breaks free” from the political, thereby “transcending” the barriers of difference, uniting people toward universal truths. They’ll say this is achieved through craft above all. Let’s see how it’s made, they’ll say – as if how something is assembled is alien to the impulse that created it. As if the first chair was hammered into existence without considering the human form.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Help me, Little Dog.” She pressed my hands to her chest. “Help me stay young, get this snow off of my life – get it all off my life.” I came to know, in those afternoons, that madness can sometimes lead to discovery, that the mind, fractured and short-wired, is not entirely wrong. The room filled and refilled with our voices as the snow fell from her head, the hardwood around my knees whitening as the past unfolded around us.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “As a rule, “little” is always smaller than “small.” Don’t ask me why.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are... To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “A new immigrant, within two years, will come to know that the salon is, in the end, a place where dreams become the calcified knowledge of what it means to be awake in American bones – with or without citizenship – aching, toxic, and underpaid.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I was seen – I who was seldom seen by anyone. I who was taught, by you, to be invisible in order to be safe, who, in elementary school, was sent to the fifteen-minute time-out in the corner only to be found two hours later, when everyone was long gone and Mrs. Harding, eating lunch at her desk, peered over her macaroni salad and gasped, “My god! My god, I forgot you were still here! What are you still doing here?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “They say the is sky is blue but I know it’s black seen through too much air. You will always remember what you were doing when it hurts the most.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “But the price of confessing, I learned, was that you get an answer.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Who told me sunflowers were his favorite because they grew higher than people.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Under the covers, we made friction of each other and fiction of everything else.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You are something made, then made to survive – which means you are somebody’s son.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Sometimes, when I’m careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what’s left of what you were given, until something changes – or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The spine won’t remember its wings no matter how many times our knees kiss the pavement.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “For sharing art and air with me.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Cigarettes spark in the dark: fireflies in a bomb shelter.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Whoever prays the dawn prayer in congregation’, said the prophet Muhammad, ‘It is as if he had prayed the whole night long!”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Unlike your brother,” you said, “you were not born until we knew you’d live.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Let me stay here until the end, I said to the lord, and we’ll call it even. Let me tie my shadow to your feet and call it friendship, I said to myself.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We are rare in goodness, and rarer still in joy.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “This also means nothing. I know. But some nothings change everything after them.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “But for now, the city brims before us with a strange, rare brilliance – as if it was not a city at all, but the sparks made by some god sharpening his weapon above us.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I have theories I write down then erase and walk away from the desk. I put the kettle on and let the sound of boiling water change my mind.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The body, it fills up. And your thirst overflows what holds it. And your ruin, you thought it would nourish him. That he would feast on it and grow into a beast you could hide in.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We live like water: wetting a new tongue with no telling what we’ve been through.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Because my uncle never killed himself – but simply died, on purpose.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Being sorry pays, being sorry even, or especially, when one has no fault, is worth every self-deprecating syllable the mouth allows. Because the mouth must eat.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “But I remember the table anyway. It exists and does not exist. An inheritance assembled with bare mouths. And nouns. And ash. I remember the table as a shard embedded in the brain. How some will call it shrapnel. And some will call it art.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Outside, the hummingbird’s whirring sounds almost like human breath. Its beak jabs into the pool of sugared water at the feeder’s base. What a terrible life, I think now, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “For a while you said nothing, then started to hum the melody to “Happy Birthday.” It was not my birthday but it was the only song you knew in English, and you kept going. And I listened, the phone pressed so hard to my ear that, hours later, a pink rectangle was still imprinted on my cheek.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Memory erases into music.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “But what if all I ever wanted was my life, Ma?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The piano drips its little notes, like rain dreaming itself whole.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense, getting down so low the world offers a merciful new angle, a larger vision made of small things, the lint suddenly a huge sheet of fog exactly the size of your eyeball.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Texas law, while prohibiting the murder of human beings, defined a human only as White, African American, or Mexican. The nameless yellow body was not considered human because it did not fit in a slot on a piece of paper.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The engine starts, the car lurches into a U-turn. As we pull away, from the porch, a boy, no older than I am, points a toy pistol at us. The gun jumps and his mouth makes blasting noises. His father turns to yell at him. He shoots once, two more times. From the window of my helicopter, I look at him. I look him dead in the eyes and do what you do. I refuse to die.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I want to believe, walking those aimless nights, that I was praying. For what I’m still not sure. But I always felt it was just ahead of me. That if I walked far enough, long enough, I would find it – perhaps even hold it up, like a tongue at the end of its word.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “A work of myriad communications, I learned to speak to the men not with my tongue, which was useless there, but with smiles, hand gestures, even silences, hesitations. I made out people, verbs, abstractions, ideas with my fingers, my arms, and by drawing in the dirt.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don’t know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Only when I utter the word do I realize that rose is also the past tense of rise. That in calling your name I am also telling you to get up. I say it as if it is the only answer to your question – as if a name is also a sound we can be found in. Where am I? Where am I? You’re Rose, Ma. You have risen.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We had been sailing – but the edge of the world was nowhere in sight.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “To gaze at what pleases – a fresco, a peach-red mountain range, a boy, the mole on his jaw – is, in itself, replication – the image prolonged in the eye, making more of it, making it last. Staring into the mirror, I replicate myself into a future where I might not exist.”
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