Top 25 R. Eric Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “The feeling of being alone, I’ve found, is the poison that has no taste. It seeps in slowly and easily; it never seems unusual. Isolation presents as an undesired state but nothing serious, nothing permanent, until the lonely nights become lonely months.”

1. “The feeling of being alone, I’ve found, is the poison that has no taste. It seeps in slowly and easily; it never seems unusual. Isolation presents as an undesired state but nothing serious, nothing permanent, until the lonely nights become lonely months.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Everybody loves Elmo, right? Elmo is a closer. Elmo gets all the Glengarry leads. Elmo stares into the abyss and the abyss whispers, “Tickle me.”

2. “Everybody loves Elmo, right? Elmo is a closer. Elmo gets all the Glengarry leads. Elmo stares into the abyss and the abyss whispers, “Tickle me.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “The storyteller says, ‘I am here. Does it matter?’ The words that I found in these books were a person calling out from a page, ‘I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.’ It seems simple but it’s a bold declaration.”

3. “The storyteller says, ‘I am here. Does it matter?’ The words that I found in these books were a person calling out from a page, ‘I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.’ It seems simple but it’s a bold declaration.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Ireally loved her. Isn’t that something? Before I knew myself, before I knew that sexuality was a spectrum, before the difficulties of college and becoming and stepping out into the world, I fell in love with a young woman in high school. We had a friendship that bloomed into a prom date like the culmination of a teen romcom. It’s a simple story. And one that could end right there. Except it doesn’t. Or rather it won’t.”

4. “Ireally loved her. Isn’t that something? Before I knew myself, before I knew that sexuality was a spectrum, before the difficulties of college and becoming and stepping out into the world, I fell in love with a young woman in high school. We had a friendship that bloomed into a prom date like the culmination of a teen romcom. It’s a simple story. And one that could end right there. Except it doesn’t. Or rather it won’t.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Every story, whether truth or fiction, is an invitation to imagination, but even more so, it’s an invitation to empathy. The storyteller says, “I am here. Does it matter?” The words that I found in these books were a person calling out from a page, “I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.”

5. “Every story, whether truth or fiction, is an invitation to imagination, but even more so, it’s an invitation to empathy. The storyteller says, “I am here. Does it matter?” The words that I found in these books were a person calling out from a page, “I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “The thing is, the promise of church is community, salvation, and a relationship with God. If the gay music minister and the person with AIDS cannot be part of the church, where do they find God?”

6. “The thing is, the promise of church is community, salvation, and a relationship with God. If the gay music minister and the person with AIDS cannot be part of the church, where do they find God?”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Every family’s story is a tale of becoming, sometimes through oppression, sometimes through achievement, and sometimes simply through the current of time. We were born grasping after freedom, in a house that could not hold us; every day we get closer and closer to our destination, until our features come into view. Soon, everyone further on down the family line can see us from their seats at the table; we’re coming home.”

7. “Every family’s story is a tale of becoming, sometimes through oppression, sometimes through achievement, and sometimes simply through the current of time. We were born grasping after freedom, in a house that could not hold us; every day we get closer and closer to our destination, until our features come into view. Soon, everyone further on down the family line can see us from their seats at the table; we’re coming home.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “When the fact of your being is used as a weapon against you, the process of relearning who you are and what your value is, is a long one.”

8. “When the fact of your being is used as a weapon against you, the process of relearning who you are and what your value is, is a long one.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “I laugh and remember that I’ll be dead before dystopia really starts to take hold.”

9. “I laugh and remember that I’ll be dead before dystopia really starts to take hold.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Even from an early age, my parents imbued in us the knowledge that although life wasn’t just, we could always do something about it.”

10. “Even from an early age, my parents imbued in us the knowledge that although life wasn’t just, we could always do something about it.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “For all of love’s complications, I think every couple’s story starts with two strangers who, if they want to survive, must move heaven and hell to reach each other.”

11. “For all of love’s complications, I think every couple’s story starts with two strangers who, if they want to survive, must move heaven and hell to reach each other.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “The library is the place where I could borrow first Grover’s philosophical tome, then a couple of Choose Your Own Adventures I could cheat at, and later a stack of mysteries I could spoil for myself, all attempts to look for some other way of understanding who I was.”

12. “The library is the place where I could borrow first Grover’s philosophical tome, then a couple of Choose Your Own Adventures I could cheat at, and later a stack of mysteries I could spoil for myself, all attempts to look for some other way of understanding who I was.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “If this was a parable, I guess the lesson would be that life isn’t fair but if you complain sometimes you get free things.”

13. “If this was a parable, I guess the lesson would be that life isn’t fair but if you complain sometimes you get free things.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Perhaps the thing that is even more overflowing with possibility than a crush, is love. In whatever form it takes, from whatever context it is drawn. With a crush after all there are sort of only two outcomes when you get down to it. It will bloom or it will whither, but love, love seems to have infiinite possible beginnings, endings, permutations, subtle shifts, and seismic changes. Love, I’ve learned, is different every time you look at it. Love is every possible love story all at once.”

14. “Perhaps the thing that is even more overflowing with possibility than a crush, is love. In whatever form it takes, from whatever context it is drawn. With a crush after all there are sort of only two outcomes when you get down to it. It will bloom or it will whither, but love, love seems to have infiinite possible beginnings, endings, permutations, subtle shifts, and seismic changes. Love, I’ve learned, is different every time you look at it. Love is every possible love story all at once.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Maybe it’s like one of those “heartwarming” race movies where a white person with suspect ideas and a black person become friends and they both learn a lesson about difference except nothing that’s learned is new to the black person, who was just going about their black business when this whole thing started. If you see it that way, please feel free to option this story for an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie.”

15. “Maybe it’s like one of those “heartwarming” race movies where a white person with suspect ideas and a black person become friends and they both learn a lesson about difference except nothing that’s learned is new to the black person, who was just going about their black business when this whole thing started. If you see it that way, please feel free to option this story for an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “I think my goal was for people to read it and say, “You are very funny, and racism is bad.”

16. “I think my goal was for people to read it and say, “You are very funny, and racism is bad.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “I’m sure I’ll be an anxious old man, and I’ll probably end up lying in my grave going, “Ugh, I feel like there’s something I should be doing right now. I wonder if everyone is angry at me. Oh my God, how long is this going to take? And what happens next?”

17. “I’m sure I’ll be an anxious old man, and I’ll probably end up lying in my grave going, “Ugh, I feel like there’s something I should be doing right now. I wonder if everyone is angry at me. Oh my God, how long is this going to take? And what happens next?”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.”

18. “The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “When I first learned about the Dewey decimal system, I assumed it was an impartial way of defining and filing the breadth of knowable information. I came to understand that the intention of the filer and the perspective that they carry play a huge role in how Dewey, and any other system, is employed.”

19. “When I first learned about the Dewey decimal system, I assumed it was an impartial way of defining and filing the breadth of knowable information. I came to understand that the intention of the filer and the perspective that they carry play a huge role in how Dewey, and any other system, is employed.”

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R. Eric Thomas Quote: “We had the easiness that comes from knowing the same stories and knowing which parts you’re supposed to say at what time. I often wonder who the audience is for those stories, the ones everyone gathered has heard every year, the ones most of us lived through. Maybe they’re not for anyone outside of the circle. Maybe the telling is the metronome by which we set the beating of our hearts.”

20. “We had the easiness that comes from knowing the same stories and knowing which parts you’re supposed to say at what time. I often wonder who the audience is for those stories, the ones everyone gathered has heard every year, the ones most of us lived through. Maybe they’re not for anyone outside of the circle. Maybe the telling is the metronome by which we set the beating of our hearts.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “If our religions aren’t about the business of achieving justice in our time, in this world, for everyone, what are they doing?”

21. “If our religions aren’t about the business of achieving justice in our time, in this world, for everyone, what are they doing?”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “We are not going to band together and listen to a bunch of scientists to save humanity like Jake Gyllenhaal in a disaster movie. Sorry. You know how I know? Because a bunch of scientists are telling us how to save the world right now, and half the world isn’t listening to them.”

22. “We are not going to band together and listen to a bunch of scientists to save humanity like Jake Gyllenhaal in a disaster movie. Sorry. You know how I know? Because a bunch of scientists are telling us how to save the world right now, and half the world isn’t listening to them.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?”

23. “Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “When one tells a story, one has to choose where to stop. So, for every story, there’s an infinite number of endings, a library’s worth of endings, every book a new chance. Perhaps, for us, for all of us, there are so many endings that they can’t all be heartbreaking and baffling. There must be a place to stop that is just a step into a new possibility.”

24. “When one tells a story, one has to choose where to stop. So, for every story, there’s an infinite number of endings, a library’s worth of endings, every book a new chance. Perhaps, for us, for all of us, there are so many endings that they can’t all be heartbreaking and baffling. There must be a place to stop that is just a step into a new possibility.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “There are probably few more interesting date options than lazily wandering the aisles of a library or a bookstore. Better if you’re getting paid for it. Not that we were on dates or that we were dating. That would be untrue. But if you were inclined to get to know someone, to show them a piece of yourself, to perhaps fall a little bit in love, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better way than by spending hours picking up books, flipping them open, and talking about what you find inside.”

25. “There are probably few more interesting date options than lazily wandering the aisles of a library or a bookstore. Better if you’re getting paid for it. Not that we were on dates or that we were dating. That would be untrue. But if you were inclined to get to know someone, to show them a piece of yourself, to perhaps fall a little bit in love, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better way than by spending hours picking up books, flipping them open, and talking about what you find inside.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “Every story, whether truth or fiction, is an invitation to imagination, but even more so, it’s an invitation to empathy. The storyteller says, “I am here. Does it matter?”

26. “Every story, whether truth or fiction, is an invitation to imagination, but even more so, it’s an invitation to empathy. The storyteller says, “I am here. Does it matter?”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “But they were relentless because they were trying to create the world that they wanted their children to live in.”

27. “But they were relentless because they were trying to create the world that they wanted their children to live in.”

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R. Eric Thomas Quote: “You say you want a happy ending, but neither of those words is really what you’re searching for. For instance, you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”

28. “You say you want a happy ending, but neither of those words is really what you’re searching for. For instance, you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”

— R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas Quote: “For years, I thought that the way to keep myself from getting burned was to set myself on fire first or to snuff out my light.”

29. “For years, I thought that the way to keep myself from getting burned was to set myself on fire first or to snuff out my light.”

— R. Eric Thomas

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