Top 35 Patrick Carman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Physically, mentally, emotionally – it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.”

— Patrick Carman

2. “The Grim Reaper doesn’t disappear... he catches up.”

— Patrick Carman

3. “I watched the night sky with it’s countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.”

— Patrick Carman

4. “In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.”

— Patrick Carman

5. “But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.”

— Patrick Carman

6. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t somebody watching.”

— Patrick Carman

7. “Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.”

— Patrick Carman

8. “The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you’re big enough inside.”

— Patrick Carman

9. “It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself – courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace – and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.”

— Patrick Carman

10. “An ignorant society is a safe society.”

— Patrick Carman

11. “You can’t be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?”

— Patrick Carman

12. “If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.”

— Patrick Carman

13. “Faith never stays put. It’s always challenging always questioning. That’s what makes it real.”

— Patrick Carman

14. “The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view.”

— Patrick Carman

15. “As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.”

— Patrick Carman

16. “I really hope that all librarians aren’t like Gladys Morgan. Because I’d really like, at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.”

— Patrick Carman

17. “I’ve stabbed two people with a fork today. What’s wrong with me?”

— Patrick Carman

18. “He had big plans for you,” I said with tears rolling down my face. “That’s why it took so long.” Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. “We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others.”

— Patrick Carman

19. “If you make something your life’s work, make sure it’s something you can feel proud of when you’re an old relic like me.”

— Patrick Carman

20. “Jade, it’s your call,” Faith said, pulling the scene squarely back on course. “We’re locked up. We’re probably not getting out alive. You tell me. Should I log into that device and send a message to Hawk telling him to lower the firewalls, or should I tell the Quinns to go to hell?” Jade looked at the floor. She looked at her shoes, one of which was untied. She looked up at Faith, and then directly at Clara Quinn. “Go to hell.”

— Patrick Carman

21. “Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won’t budge!? Put your back into it, man, give it all you’ve got!? Bang! Bang! Bang!”

— Patrick Carman

22. “There’s something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.”

— Patrick Carman

23. “You don’t get to choose what the world would require of you. You got to choose only how you responded.”

— Patrick Carman

24. “She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.”

— Patrick Carman

25. “She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother’s touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.”

— Patrick Carman

26. “Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The.”

— Patrick Carman

27. “I have failed, and failed, and failed again,′ he said. ‘But no amount of failure can move Elyon’s hand of affection away from me. It’s inescapable. To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do.”

— Patrick Carman

28. “It all scares me, and it’s all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.”

— Patrick Carman

29. “I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.”

— Patrick Carman

30. “It seems as though the only things causing pain around here are these ridiculous walls we keep building.”

— Patrick Carman

31. “He has guided my hands in ways I don’t always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don’t understand for certain what that purpose is.”

— Patrick Carman

32. “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A.”

— Patrick Carman

33. “Twenty minutes into our walk away from the wall put us deep in a forest of fir, pine, cottonwood, and aspen trees. The lush forest floor was alive and danced with shadows cast from an endless parade of swaying trees. As we approached early evening it was cool and peaceful. The sound of the trees moving in the wind high above seemed like a friendly traveling companion, calling us farther and farther into the depths of the forest.”

— Patrick Carman

34. “Wars are lost by thinking the impossible won’t happen.”

— Patrick Carman

35. “My way is set as in stone, and I don’t feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.”

— Patrick Carman

36. “Lazy Dan left the building and was replaced by Alarmed Dan.”

— Patrick Carman