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Top 25 Philipp Meyer Quotes (2025 Update)

Philipp Meyer Quote: “No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”

1. “No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.”

2. “You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Same as what they taught you as a lifeguard- you have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.”

3. “Same as what they taught you as a lifeguard- you have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.”

4. “When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.”

5. “Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.”

6. “You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “There’s no sense kissing the Devil till you’ve met him.”

7. “There’s no sense kissing the Devil till you’ve met him.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

8. “My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.”

9. “If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”

10. “We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “On a horse he still looks like a young man; on the ground he carries the weight of all his years.”

11. “On a horse he still looks like a young man; on the ground he carries the weight of all his years.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack of prospects, it was like watching sparks die in the night... He didn’t see how the country could survive like this in the long run; a stable society required stable jobs, there wasn’t anything more to it than that.”

12. “It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack of prospects, it was like watching sparks die in the night... He didn’t see how the country could survive like this in the long run; a stable society required stable jobs, there wasn’t anything more to it than that.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

13. “At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.”

14. “When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.”

15. “Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”

16. “When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they’re causing, and they will not stop until they’ve run the world economy off a cliff.”

17. “Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they’re causing, and they will not stop until they’ve run the world economy off a cliff.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about.”

18. “They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “It was only later, when the children were grown, that she knew she had been right, that once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about work. They became desperate to excuse their own laziness. They came to believe that their family property was something inherent to life itself, like water or air or clean sheets.”

19. “It was only later, when the children were grown, that she knew she had been right, that once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about work. They became desperate to excuse their own laziness. They came to believe that their family property was something inherent to life itself, like water or air or clean sheets.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “And one day... there would be no record, nothing left standing, to show that anything had ever been built in America. It was going to cause big problems, he didn’t know how but he felt it. You could not have a country, not this big, that didn’t make things for itself. There would be ramifications eventually.”

20. “And one day... there would be no record, nothing left standing, to show that anything had ever been built in America. It was going to cause big problems, he didn’t know how but he felt it. You could not have a country, not this big, that didn’t make things for itself. There would be ramifications eventually.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it’s most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated.”

21. “It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it’s most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “If a man has done it, so can you: that is what our father used to tell us.”

22. “If a man has done it, so can you: that is what our father used to tell us.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books – the only comforting thing I have.”

23. “I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books – the only comforting thing I have.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “We lie as if we are the first people on earth, or the last, the sun coming down on us, the water cold, our every action of the utmost importance, as if, like children, we know that no one else really exists.”

24. “We lie as if we are the first people on earth, or the last, the sun coming down on us, the water cold, our every action of the utmost importance, as if, like children, we know that no one else really exists.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Once you lost your dignity, that was it. Dignity is life.”

25. “Once you lost your dignity, that was it. Dignity is life.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “There’s probably never been an old man who didn’t think that all the young people were degenerate. Nature of youth and age. Painful to see the world changing without you.”

26. “There’s probably never been an old man who didn’t think that all the young people were degenerate. Nature of youth and age. Painful to see the world changing without you.”

— Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer Quote: “Few of us know anything about fifteenth-century Danish kings, but most of us know the story of Hamlet. Such as it is with Chamberlain and Cormac McCarthy. Art has eclipsed the Real.”

27. “Few of us know anything about fifteenth-century Danish kings, but most of us know the story of Hamlet. Such as it is with Chamberlain and Cormac McCarthy. Art has eclipsed the Real.”

— Philipp Meyer

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