Top 50 Seth King Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Comparison is the enemy of happiness, stop measuring yourself against the world.”

— Seth King

2. “If we do not acknowledge our collective trauma, how can we ever heal from it? When we speak, when we share, we can change things. Maybe even change the world.”

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3. “The heart doesn’t forget. It never forgets.”

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4. “Nothing matters, so everything matters. You can find joy in the nothingness, and silence in the chaos.”

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5. “The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.”

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6. “Life’s supposed to be a little hard. If your life is too easy, you’re doing it wrong.”

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7. “They say that if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. Summer’s name would never be carved in stone in monuments or tributes, but she had still carved her name onto my soul, and she deserved the same to be done to her legacy – but in a much larger sense. And so, with the windswept notion that I was hurtling toward destiny, I held my hands over my keyboard and preparedto etch my vanished girlfriend onto the storm-scraped surface of history – one keystroke at a time.”

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8. “I miss being young and careless, when the world was still a mystery.”

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9. “We really were the same: just two lost souls drifting through an uncertain world, waiting for a future we were almost too afraid to even imagine for ourselves.”

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10. “Burying your feelings is like burying a lit match in a pile of gas cans – something has to blow eventually.”

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11. “The casual kind of cruelty hurt the worst, as it usually rolled off the lips of the ones we loved most. Sometimes we let our loved ones pick and pick and pick at us until suddenly there was nothing left to save.”

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12. “Let love destroy you. God knows life is going to anyway.”

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13. “She was everywhere and nowhere and nothing and she was gone.”

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14. “His eyes locked with mine, and I drowned in them. That was odd. I always thought you could only drown in water, never humans.”

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15. “Life is brief but love is long. Somewhere between anger and love is an ocean of eternal tranquility. It is there that I will see you again.”

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16. “Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don’t believe in a miracle like love?”

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17. “If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination.”

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18. “After I watched Brokeback Mountain with my friend Katherine one time, she’d remarked that it “felt almost like a straight romance movie!” and I could remember wanting to shank her. The movie featured two humans falling in love – what else was it supposed to feel like?”

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19. “Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.”

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20. “We don’t get to choose how much time we get in this life, but we do get to choose how we spend it.”

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21. “On a sunny Tuesday morning towards the end of March, a white-haired man walked into a cold room and told me I might die soon.”

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22. “But for every epic love tale splashed out in lights for the world to see, there were ten million more couples that loved each other in the dark just as beautifully.”

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23. “Underneath it all, I was the same as anyone else: I was dreaming for the love of someone who wouldn’t give it to me.”

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24. “I wanna lie next to your daughter forever.”

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25. “I’m going to see that girl’s face in every crowd I look into. Forever. And maybe a few forevers after that.”

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26. “You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.”

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27. “I’d wanted love ever since I was a cookie-cutter little girl being brainwashed by cookie-cutter Disney movies about cookie-cutter princes and princesses falling into cookie-cutter love and then prancing off to their cookie-cutter castles to live out their cookie-cutter lives.”

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28. “Everyone has issues. The key is finding someone whose issues mesh well with your issues.”

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29. “You’re hot and you need to show it. And plus, it’s the beach. Who puts makeup on to go to the beach?”

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30. “You were the most magnificent adventure I have ever known, Cooper.”

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31. “Are you my boyfriend?” I whispered, my voice like a little child’s. He was half-asleep, too, and I felt him kiss the back of my hand one last time. “I don’t know,” he mumbled. “But I do know you’re the only person I wanna be alive with.”

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32. “Remember that in art, the brightest colors always show up next to the darkest lines. Your brightest shades are on the way, sweetie.”

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33. “You’re beautiful, and beautiful things don’t demand attention. It just gravitates to them.”

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34. “As he stood there I wondered more and more about him. What did he go home to? Did he love his father? Did his father love him? Who exactly was this alien? And did he know how happy he made me simply by existing?”

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35. “Hi. My name is Cooper Nichols, and I am absolutely swimming in love with a girl named Summer Johnson.”

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36. “His eyes are ravenous but his body is still tense, and so I slip my bra strap off my shoulder and motion my finger at him. He takes a deep breath, slips off his silver cross necklace, and tosses it aside. Whatever is about to happen, it seems that he does not want God around to witness it.”

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37. “Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone.”

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38. “You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because.”

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39. “Love is the most adult action anyone could ever carry out in this emotionally stunted world, and once you love, the rest will fall into place. It has to.”

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40. “But whatever happened, I knew I’d always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.”

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41. “Sometimes you couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment you realized you were in love with someone. Your feelings gradually deepened and changed and transformed and took root until one day you turned around and realized your life has bent itself around someone, and you’d never even noticed it. But this was different.”

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42. “Dying was easy, but living was the most challenging adventure of all.”

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43. “They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero.”

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44. “It happened late last night, after I got home. But it was peaceful, and it was just like she fell asleep, between me and my mom’s wheelchair, down in the garage.”

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45. “That was the day I realized I could really, truly make people happy just by making them feel comfortable, by making them feel heard, making them feel witnessed, like they mattered.”

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46. “I noticed something in his eyes that reminded me of myself– the sadness, the insecurity, the fatigue.”

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47. “My life could be kinda sucky sometimes, and there was nothing that comforted me more than sinking into a good book and immersing myself in a world I knew nothing of and feeling things I would never otherwise feel.”

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48. “This was just another side effect of him: he made me feel like I was being murdered by joy.”

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49. “When I was little, everyone had always told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, but they’d forgotten to tell me two very important things: 1. how to grow up, and 2. How to figure out what the hell I wanted once I’d done that.”

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50. “Book lovers were also fools, in a way. Everyone knew they could never find love, because all they did was compare real life to life within the page. And spoiler alert: the page always won.”

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