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Top 25 Sarah Rose Etter Quotes (2026 Update)

Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “The amount of pain we can endure is spectacular. We are conditioned to withstand torture, to haul gray boulders of hurt on our shoulders, to confront the pressure endlessly, the heavy rough stone wearing away at us until our skin breaks open, revealing the bloody red flesh below.”

1. “The amount of pain we can endure is spectacular. We are conditioned to withstand torture, to haul gray boulders of hurt on our shoulders, to confront the pressure endlessly, the heavy rough stone wearing away at us until our skin breaks open, revealing the bloody red flesh below.”

— Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “The future is as cold and alien as the terrain of a newly discovered planet. Isn’t that the beauty of the future? If you push forward, if you aren’t too afraid, if you step into your space suit and enter the darkness, you will discover new and terrible worlds.”

2. “The future is as cold and alien as the terrain of a newly discovered planet. Isn’t that the beauty of the future? If you push forward, if you aren’t too afraid, if you step into your space suit and enter the darkness, you will discover new and terrible worlds.”

— Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Doesn’t it overwhelm you sometimes – To be alive? Don’t you sometimes feel like at any moment you could be torn away from yourself? From your life?”

3. “Doesn’t it overwhelm you sometimes – To be alive? Don’t you sometimes feel like at any moment you could be torn away from yourself? From your life?”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Maybe there must always be two of us – our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”

4. “Maybe there must always be two of us – our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”

5. “If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “For a moment, just a moment, the man on fire is gone and there is nothing in my mind at all. For a moment, I am cold, still, a cadaver on a silver autopsy table.”

6. “For a moment, just a moment, the man on fire is gone and there is nothing in my mind at all. For a moment, I am cold, still, a cadaver on a silver autopsy table.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “The beast in my heart rests, calm, fangs in. A slow spool of silver thread unwinds in my bloodstream, a shiver of pleasure.”

7. “The beast in my heart rests, calm, fangs in. A slow spool of silver thread unwinds in my bloodstream, a shiver of pleasure.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “You wake up one day and realise what you’ve become, what you allow, and you have to stare down into the pit at yourself, at your own choices, at the ways in which you have been cunning and stupid and false and wretched to keep up with the world around you.”

8. “You wake up one day and realise what you’ve become, what you allow, and you have to stare down into the pit at yourself, at your own choices, at the ways in which you have been cunning and stupid and false and wretched to keep up with the world around you.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “My mind can make love out of anything, even the smallest of shards.”

9. “My mind can make love out of anything, even the smallest of shards.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “We detach our faces from our phones and rise up when the train reaches a certain station. We spill out onto the sidewalk of a wealthy town overrun with the headquarters of every major tech company. The streets are lined with palm trees and boutiques, but even here, blanketed bodies dot the doorways.”

10. “We detach our faces from our phones and rise up when the train reaches a certain station. We spill out onto the sidewalk of a wealthy town overrun with the headquarters of every major tech company. The streets are lined with palm trees and boutiques, but even here, blanketed bodies dot the doorways.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “We make them familiar in order to understand them, to reduce our fear of what is beyond this life. There is safety in metaphors. The truth is far more terrifying:.”

11. “We make them familiar in order to understand them, to reduce our fear of what is beyond this life. There is safety in metaphors. The truth is far more terrifying:.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “My throat is so full of love and sorrow that no more words come out. I can’t breathe and I know nothing, looking into the heart of the future, the relentless oncoming of death.”

12. “My throat is so full of love and sorrow that no more words come out. I can’t breathe and I know nothing, looking into the heart of the future, the relentless oncoming of death.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Life splits like a snake’s tongue. The two paths fork before me. Is this all life is? One choice followed by another, stacking upon themselves, until you are standing in your own future and you have become someone else?”

13. “Life splits like a snake’s tongue. The two paths fork before me. Is this all life is? One choice followed by another, stacking upon themselves, until you are standing in your own future and you have become someone else?”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “I have no control over the world around me, or the people around me, or how they regard me, or how they speak to me.”

14. “I have no control over the world around me, or the people around me, or how they regard me, or how they speak to me.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “I have known sadness my entire life. I recognized the message: I would never have anything, not in a real way. The best I could do was the discount version.”

15. “I have known sadness my entire life. I recognized the message: I would never have anything, not in a real way. The best I could do was the discount version.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “I don’t know what you’re getting at. You’re too attached to your own feelings. Life isn’t so complicated as you make it for yourself.”

16. “I don’t know what you’re getting at. You’re too attached to your own feelings. Life isn’t so complicated as you make it for yourself.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Everyone struggles at first. I mean, I didn’t, but technology comes naturally to me. I was born with a brain for it. I think most men are.’ ‘I don’t think that’s how it works. Anyone can develop a skill. You don’t need to be born with anything.”

17. “Everyone struggles at first. I mean, I didn’t, but technology comes naturally to me. I was born with a brain for it. I think most men are.’ ‘I don’t think that’s how it works. Anyone can develop a skill. You don’t need to be born with anything.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “My mother stung and stung. Her words stung. Her fury stung. Her palm stung across my skin. Some part of love must be the stinging. After enough of the red welts, you start to change. Eventually, you begin to hide. You stay in your room, quiet. Eventually, after enough stings, you learn to avoid the wasp altogether. Eventually, you grow up and move as far away as you can. You might even put an entire country between yourself and the wasp queen.”

18. “My mother stung and stung. Her words stung. Her fury stung. Her palm stung across my skin. Some part of love must be the stinging. After enough of the red welts, you start to change. Eventually, you begin to hide. You stay in your room, quiet. Eventually, after enough stings, you learn to avoid the wasp altogether. Eventually, you grow up and move as far away as you can. You might even put an entire country between yourself and the wasp queen.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “When you’re young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play.”

19. “When you’re young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “My father says that capitalism is a chess match. We are only playing the same game of chess until we aren’t, until the paychecks stop.”

20. “My father says that capitalism is a chess match. We are only playing the same game of chess until we aren’t, until the paychecks stop.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “They keep talking: new succulents, hot yoga class, stock options, making their own kombucha and yogurt. Usually I would sit in sullen rage and spend the night shooting eye daggers across the table at them. But in the drugged country of my newly softened heart, I can graciously accept their lives.”

21. “They keep talking: new succulents, hot yoga class, stock options, making their own kombucha and yogurt. Usually I would sit in sullen rage and spend the night shooting eye daggers across the table at them. But in the drugged country of my newly softened heart, I can graciously accept their lives.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Here are the facts: I am thirty-three, almost a year into a job in Silicon Valley, waiting for the truth of my life to crack open and reveal itself.”

22. “Here are the facts: I am thirty-three, almost a year into a job in Silicon Valley, waiting for the truth of my life to crack open and reveal itself.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Our bodies have been split down the center, our guts spilled across the conference room table. And for what?”

23. “Our bodies have been split down the center, our guts spilled across the conference room table. And for what?”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Their white plastic earbuds override the sound of real life, their faces buried in their screens. They do not speak or make eye contact. They aren’t really here. The train is full of husks.”

24. “Their white plastic earbuds override the sound of real life, their faces buried in their screens. They do not speak or make eye contact. They aren’t really here. The train is full of husks.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “Some days, of course, you’re out there digging ditches. Some days, it’s just a Tuesday, you know? But then there are the big moments. And you have to save them in your heart, crystallize them, and put them in a glass jar.”

25. “Some days, of course, you’re out there digging ditches. Some days, it’s just a Tuesday, you know? But then there are the big moments. And you have to save them in your heart, crystallize them, and put them in a glass jar.”

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Sarah Rose Etter Quote: “How does anyone bear themselves? How can anyone stare into the darkest corners of humanity and return to the office, enter the meeting room, and deliver the presentation? How do we all just keep working?”

26. “How does anyone bear themselves? How can anyone stare into the darkest corners of humanity and return to the office, enter the meeting room, and deliver the presentation? How do we all just keep working?”

— Sarah Rose Etter

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