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Top 450 Ocean Vuong Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ocean Vuong Quote: “Your hands are hideous – and I hate everything that made them that way. I hate how they are the wreck and reckoning of a dream.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “But when I got closer, my head blocked the rays and the tulips turned off. This also means nothing, I know. But some nothings change everything after them.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Cocaine, laced with oxycodone, makes everything fast and still at once, like when you’re on the train and, gazing across the fogged New England fields, at the brick Colt factory where cousin Victor works, you see its blackened smokestack – parallel to the train, like it’s following you, like where you’re from won’t let you off the hook. Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Because what I did with my one short beautiful life – was lose it on a winning streak.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “As the bus sped up, bits of the city whirled by like objects in a washing machine.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We crowded around her, hear the single deep inhale pull down her lungs, as if she was about to dive underwater, and then, that’s it – no exhale. She simply stills, like someone had pressed pause on a movie.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We had decided, shortly after we met, because our friends were already dying from overdoses, to never tell each other goodbye or good night.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “He was a boy breaking out and into himself at once.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The truth is I came here hoping for a reason to stay.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Maybe it was because his breaths were so clear to me then, how I imagined the oxygen in his throat, his lungs, the bronchi and blood vessels expanding, how it moved through all the places I’ll never see, that I keep returning to this most basic measurement of life, even long after he’s gone.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “There are hands fluttering between the constellations, trying to hold on.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I looked at you hard, the way I had learned, by then, to look into the eyes of my bullies.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I remember studying my father’s letter and seeing a scatter of tiny black dots: the periods left untouched. A vernacular of silence. I remember thinking everyone I ever loved was a single black dot on a bright page.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “A flower is seen only toward the end of its life, just-bloomed and already on its way to being brown paper.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I don’t know if you’re happy, Ma. I never asked.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Without moving your head, you look at me, the way a mother looks at anything – for too long.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The weight of the average placenta is roughly one and a half pounds. A disposable organ where nutrients, hormones, and waste are passed between mother and fetus. In this way, the placenta is a kind of language – perhaps our first one, our true mother tongue. At four or five months, my brother’s placenta was already fully developed. You two were speaking – in blood utterances.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The room is silent as a photograph.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I was seen – I who had seldom been seen by anyone.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I wait alone under an awning for the bus that will take me across the river, to the town that holds everything Trevor except Trevor himself.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I thought of the window again, how everything seemed like a window, even the air between us.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I remember crawling to the table, how it was now a pile of soot, then dipping my fingers into it. My nails blackening with my country. My country dissolving on my tongue. I remember cupping the ash and writing the words live live live on the foreheads of the three women sitting in the room. How the ash eventually hardened into ink on a blank page. How there’s ash on this very page. How there’s enough for everyone.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “What if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body? The blood racing to the heart only to be sent back out, filling the routes, the once empty channels, the miles it takes to take us toward each other. Why did I feel more myself while reaching for him, my hand midair, than I did having touched him.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “He was white. I was yellow. In the dark, our facts lit us up and our acts pinned us down.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “As if the first chair was hammered into existence without considering the human form.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I think of those men who sweated, who joked and sang beside me in the endless tobacco.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “When we arrives in America in 1990, color was one of the first things we knew of yet knew nothing about.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Why they die themselves like that?” she asked, mouth open. Like usual, I made something up on the spot: “They don’t mean to, Grandma. They’re just following their family. That’s all. They don’t know its a cliff.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Because nothing could be taken from me, I thought, if I had already given it away.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Inside a single-use life, there are no second chances. That’s a lie but we live it. We live anyway.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “My people made a rhythm this way. A way.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You asked me what it’s like to be a writer and I’m giving you a mess, I know. But it’s a mess, Ma – I’m not making this up. I made it down. That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense, getting down so low the world offers are 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: “Oh no. The sadness is intensifying. How rude.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “That’s what I wanted – not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I caved and decided it will be joy from now on.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I saw my baby, just a glimpse. A brownish blur on its way to the bin.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “He was regarding his petrified toes with an expression of fatigued bewilderment, as if he had just woken from a deep sleep only to find himself nailed red and forever to this world.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “And because I was six, I remember believing color was a kind of happiness – so I took the brightest shades in the crayon box and filled my sad cow with purple, orange, red, auburn, magenta, pewter, fuchsia, glittered grey, lime green.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Despite their vastly different paths, they found themselves transplants in a decadent and disorientating city besieged by bombing raids. It was in this familiar happenstance that they found refuge in each other.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You feel for your throat because history has proven the skull lodged in the gravedigger’s hands is often the one behind your face.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The train barrels past them all, these towns I have come to know only by what leaves them, myself included.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “You don’t have to be like the buffaloes. You can stop.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “I lied – why I’m not quite sure. Maybe I wanted to give him the power of this small knowledge over me.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “How could I have known, that by pressing this pen to paper, I was touching us back from extinction?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “In minutes, I became more of myself. Which is to say the monstrous part of me got so large, so familiar, I could want it. I could kiss it.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “Note to self: If a guy tells you his favorite poet is Jack Kerouac, there’s a very good chance he’s a douchebag.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The weight of the average placenta is roughly one and a half pounds. A disposable organ where nutrients, hormones, and waste are passed between mother and fetus. In this way, the placenta is a kind of language – perhaps our first one, our true mother tongue.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “How else to repay the boy who gave me my first pizza bagel but to become his shadow?”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “The Hubble telescope swoops the other way. Halley’s Comet shoots back behind the trees as the Humvees roll, again, into Iraq.”
Ocean Vuong Quote: “We sat there, passing it back and forth until my head felt think and skull-less.”
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