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Top 15 Shaun Tan Quotes (2024 Update)

Shaun Tan Quote: “Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”

1. “Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to...”

2. “Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to...”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It’s telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.”

3. “Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It’s telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you’d never want to repeat them. But I can’t remember any of those. So I’ll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing...”

4. “So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you’d never want to repeat them. But I can’t remember any of those. So I’ll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing...”

Shaun Tan Quote: “The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”

5. “The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.”

6. “Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that’s good because it’s opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.”

7. “As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that’s good because it’s opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Little people can be empowered through art.”

8. “Little people can be empowered through art.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”

9. “You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “The world is a deaf machine.”

10. “The world is a deaf machine.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Explanation is a luxury we can’t afford these days, and reality doesn’t care for it, being far too busy following its own unknowable course.”

11. “Explanation is a luxury we can’t afford these days, and reality doesn’t care for it, being far too busy following its own unknowable course.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Yes, we all know that there’s a good chance the missiles won’t work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we’ve stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it’s probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.”

12. “Yes, we all know that there’s a good chance the missiles won’t work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we’ve stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it’s probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “How much do I love our family? This much. When any kind of emergency strikes, good or bad, we snap together like parts in a machine, like a submarine crew at war in the tin-can clutter of our home, none of the usual debate, character assassination, woeful monologues, and turgid hand-wringing. I’ve learned to love crises for this reason, how they make us pull together and forget our separateness and sadness; this was the second great gift of the moonfish.”

13. “How much do I love our family? This much. When any kind of emergency strikes, good or bad, we snap together like parts in a machine, like a submarine crew at war in the tin-can clutter of our home, none of the usual debate, character assassination, woeful monologues, and turgid hand-wringing. I’ve learned to love crises for this reason, how they make us pull together and forget our separateness and sadness; this was the second great gift of the moonfish.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.”

14. “Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “That they would publish for adults and which would find currency with children.”

15. “That they would publish for adults and which would find currency with children.”

Shaun Tan Quote: “Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren’t we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?”

16. “Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren’t we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?”

Shaun Tan Quote: “He makes me wonder what damage I could do with them, how badly I could hurt someone if I hit them with a story.”

17. “He makes me wonder what damage I could do with them, how badly I could hurt someone if I hit them with a story.”

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