Top 180 Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I should be dead. I wish I were dead. Because you can only die once, but you can suffer forever.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

2. “Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

3. “You can choose to be happy with what life gives you... or spend your life miserable. I choose happiness. It’s really that simple.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

4. “At the end of the day, all I have left is a house that doesn’t feel like a home anymore either. A body that doesn’t feel like my body anymore. A self that doesn’t feel like myself anymore.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

5. “Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day.”

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6. “The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter. Because we are the ants, and we’ll keep marching on.”

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7. “The only thing in life that’s forever is death. You can change your mind about everything else.”

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8. “As human beings, we seek meaning in everything. We’re so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don’t exist.”

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9. “That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.”

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10. “Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.” I.”

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11. “Neatness is the trademark of a boring mind.”

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12. “Don’t get so focused on where you’re going that you forget the people you’re travelling with. There’s no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.”

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13. “We’re all Holden Caulfield at fifteen, but when we grow up we want to be Atticus Finch.”

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14. “It was the feeling of finally finding a puzzle piece that fit into place. Of bursting through the surface of the water and taking the breath that had been burning in my lungs. Of remembering the word that’d been on the tip of my tongue for decades. This was the feeling I’d been missing all those years.”

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15. “Because sometimes it’s easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.”

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16. “It’s easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story worth knowing and forget that every person we encounter is living their own, is the center of their own universe. But that’s the nature of the human experience.”

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17. “I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”

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18. “And yet, despite being faced with so much hardship and pain, we continue to live. We continue to struggle and fight for our place in the world. We continue to try even though we know we’re going to lose. That’s the real miracle, not me.”

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19. “Grief is quiet. Grief is a strangled cry. Tears we hide. A scream in a vacuum where sound doesn’t carry. And though we try to share it, grief is ultimately a burden each of us must carry alone.”

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20. “Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.”

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21. “Sometimes I feel like I’m floating alone in the ocean. Other times I feel like the ocean’s in a paper cup.”

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22. “Life isn’t fair. That is what we tell kids when they’re young and learn that there are no rules, or rather that there are but only suckers play by them. We din’t reassure them or give them tools to help cope with the reality of life; we simply pat them on the back and send them on their way, burdened with the knowledge that nothing they do will ever really matter. It can’t if life’s not fair.”

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23. “The world burns from the inside out. You don’t see it until it’s too late.”

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24. “I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”

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25. “You can’t fight gravity. Gravity is love. Love requires us to fall.”

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26. “Maybe love doesn’t require falling after all. Maybe it only requires that you choose to be in it. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with us or how much time we had left, but I wasn’t going to waste a second of it.”

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27. “He was mine before he was yours, but he’d never given me all of himself. Then you came along and got everything I ever wanted.”

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28. “Falling is easy. Jumping is hard.”

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29. “It’s impossible to let go of the people we love. Pieces of them remain embedded inside of us like shrapnel. Every breath causes those fragments to burrow through our muscles, nearer to our hearts. And we think the pain will kill us, but it won’t. Eventually, scar tissue forms around those twisted splinters like cocoons. They remain part of us, but slowly hurt less.”

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30. “Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don’t. Because we are the ants.”

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31. “No one is perfect, no one is flawless, and loving someone means admitting they have faults. It means loving them, not in spite of those flaws, but because of them.”

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32. “People don’t really change; they just find something else to give their life meaning.”

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33. “We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”

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34. “I don’t know what I would have done without you.” “You would have been just fine, I think.”

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35. “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”

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36. “To him, I am the cheap pair of sunglasses you buy on vacation because you know you won’t care if you break or lose them.”

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37. “Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall.”

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38. “Love isn’t obvious until you’re in it. It’s not a punch in the face that leaves you reeling. Love is gradual and sneaky. It grows like weeds between the cracks of a hundred average moments.”

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39. “Because you were a freak and I was a freak, and being two freaks together was better than being two freaks alone.”

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40. “I wanted him to kiss me, to kiss away everything that had happened. To kiss me until time reversed and we were back in my bedroom. But you can’t live in the past; you can only visit. I wasn’t sure what was happening between us, but I didn’t want it to happen without me.”

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41. “I know we’ve never properly met, so you’ve got no reason to believe me, but I think you’re wrong about love. Love isn’t war. Life is the war; love is a truce you find in the middle of all that violence. And I bet there’s someone out there who loves you, even if you don’t know them yet.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

42. “But two people can love each other and still not belong together, even if neither of them wanted to admit it.”

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43. “Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.”

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44. “Because the past isn’t important. History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn’t have to be who we are.”

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45. “Maybe some doors that slam shut behind you and can’t ever be opened again aren’t the scariest things in the world after all. Maybe some doors are better off closed. That way we can focus on the ones still open in front of us.”

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46. “You believe no one is watching because it helps you sleep at night, but someone is always watching.”

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47. “While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.”

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48. “I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light. God surely meant for humans to live like that. He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time.”

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49. “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.”

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50. “When someone says, “Everything happens for a reason,” they’re trying to convince you there’s a pattern for your life, and that if you pay close attention, it’s possible to decipher it.”

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