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Top 20 Roz Chast Quotes (2024 Update)

Roz Chast Quote: “Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.”

1. “Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.”

Roz Chast Quote: “My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.”

2. “My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I wish that, at the end of life, when things were truly “done,” there was something to look forward to. Something more pleasure-oriented. Perhaps opium, or heroin. So you become addicted. So what? All-you-can-eat ice cream parlors for the extremely aged. Big art pictures books and music. EXTREME palliative care, for when you’ve had it with everything else: the x-rays, the MRIs, the boring food, and the pills that don’t do anything at all. Would that be so bad?”

3. “I wish that, at the end of life, when things were truly “done,” there was something to look forward to. Something more pleasure-oriented. Perhaps opium, or heroin. So you become addicted. So what? All-you-can-eat ice cream parlors for the extremely aged. Big art pictures books and music. EXTREME palliative care, for when you’ve had it with everything else: the x-rays, the MRIs, the boring food, and the pills that don’t do anything at all. Would that be so bad?”

Roz Chast Quote: “I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.”

4. “I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.”

Roz Chast Quote: “A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don’t think your kids are going to want it, don’t take it.”

5. “A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don’t think your kids are going to want it, don’t take it.”

Roz Chast Quote: “It’s almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can’t just not do it.”

6. “It’s almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can’t just not do it.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.”

7. “I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.”

8. “I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.”

9. “I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the “work” is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.”

10. “I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the “work” is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I gave up on ever trying to get ‘my way.’ I barely knew it existed.”

11. “I gave up on ever trying to get ‘my way.’ I barely knew it existed.”

Roz Chast Quote: “You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you’re working and die, but possibly that won’t happen, and you’ll be in this bed, and somebody’s going to have to clean you up.”

12. “You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you’re working and die, but possibly that won’t happen, and you’ll be in this bed, and somebody’s going to have to clean you up.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.”

13. “I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.”

Roz Chast Quote: “Childhood – that was not my favorite time in my life.”

14. “Childhood – that was not my favorite time in my life.”

Roz Chast Quote: “The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn’t mean anything to me as far as whether they are “real art” or not.”

15. “The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn’t mean anything to me as far as whether they are “real art” or not.”

Roz Chast Quote: “Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.”

16. “Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day – I’m not saying that everything is hilariously funny.”

17. “I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day – I’m not saying that everything is hilariously funny.”

Roz Chast Quote: “Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.”

18. “Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.”

Roz Chast Quote: “My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.”

19. “My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I feel about Manhattan the way I feel about a book, a TV series, a movie, a play, an artist, a song, a food, a whatever that I love. I want to tell you about it so that maybe you will love it, too. I’m not worried about it being ‘ruined’ by too many people ‘discovering’ it. Manhattan’s been ruined since 1626, when Peter Minuit bought it from Native Americans for $24.00.”

20. “I feel about Manhattan the way I feel about a book, a TV series, a movie, a play, an artist, a song, a food, a whatever that I love. I want to tell you about it so that maybe you will love it, too. I’m not worried about it being ‘ruined’ by too many people ‘discovering’ it. Manhattan’s been ruined since 1626, when Peter Minuit bought it from Native Americans for $24.00.”

Roz Chast Quote: “I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.”

21. “I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.”

Roz Chast Quote: “Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.”

22. “Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.”

Roz Chast Quote: “Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where’s the fun in that?”

23. “Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where’s the fun in that?”

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