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Top 15 Stephen Markley Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Markley Quote: “It’s a strange feeling: to be ashamed and embarrassed of who you used to be. Even with the excuses of youth, inexperience, and influence- her church, her parents, her older brothers, her friends, almost everyone she knew- it still made her deeply uncomfortable to think of herself back then, who she might have hurt without knowing it.”

1. “It’s a strange feeling: to be ashamed and embarrassed of who you used to be. Even with the excuses of youth, inexperience, and influence- her church, her parents, her older brothers, her friends, almost everyone she knew- it still made her deeply uncomfortable to think of herself back then, who she might have hurt without knowing it.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “When he began to see the way the world is, not the way the corporate media presented it, not the way his teacher and parents told it, not the way he wished it was, so he wouldn’t have to feel guilt. Once he saw the way the world is, in it’s most gritty, tactile, overwhelming sadness and injustice, well he could never unsee it.”

2. “When he began to see the way the world is, not the way the corporate media presented it, not the way his teacher and parents told it, not the way he wished it was, so he wouldn’t have to feel guilt. Once he saw the way the world is, in it’s most gritty, tactile, overwhelming sadness and injustice, well he could never unsee it.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “I tell you this story only to try to explain to you that the world you see today and the world you will see at the upper span of your long lifetimes – well – it will amaze you. The changes you will experience, the chances you will have to shape those changes – I just cannot stress how astonishing and astounding and joyful an opportunity it will be.”

3. “I tell you this story only to try to explain to you that the world you see today and the world you will see at the upper span of your long lifetimes – well – it will amaze you. The changes you will experience, the chances you will have to shape those changes – I just cannot stress how astonishing and astounding and joyful an opportunity it will be.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Violence against nature always goes hand in hand with violence against people.”

4. “Violence against nature always goes hand in hand with violence against people.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “How to explain that we all show up to this party with no invite and no apparent host, and we can depart from it at any moment for no reason?”

5. “How to explain that we all show up to this party with no invite and no apparent host, and we can depart from it at any moment for no reason?”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Yet his friend was in no way standard. He was freewheeling, mule-stubborn, and cunning as a coyote trickster. He had whole oceans inside of him, the wilds of the country, fierce ghosts, and a couple hundred million stars.”

6. “Yet his friend was in no way standard. He was freewheeling, mule-stubborn, and cunning as a coyote trickster. He had whole oceans inside of him, the wilds of the country, fierce ghosts, and a couple hundred million stars.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “How quickly contempt can dissipate when faced with the pathetic humanness of another person. You see inside them for even the briefest moment and suddenly empathy blows through. A dark sky cleared by a hard rain.”

7. “How quickly contempt can dissipate when faced with the pathetic humanness of another person. You see inside them for even the briefest moment and suddenly empathy blows through. A dark sky cleared by a hard rain.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Thirteen years old, he walked around for weeks thinking of those words, feeling the way you do when you’re outside with your friends and it starts to rain, but you’re too far from home to run for it. So you just get soaked and marvel at why you don’t do such a thing all the time.”

8. “Thirteen years old, he walked around for weeks thinking of those words, feeling the way you do when you’re outside with your friends and it starts to rain, but you’re too far from home to run for it. So you just get soaked and marvel at why you don’t do such a thing all the time.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “It was how she made him laugh as a thirteen-year-old. It’s why he dreaded the moment when they’d have to get off the bus at Rainrock Road and part ways – because he knew there was a finite number of those bus rides in this one precious life.”

9. “It was how she made him laugh as a thirteen-year-old. It’s why he dreaded the moment when they’d have to get off the bus at Rainrock Road and part ways – because he knew there was a finite number of those bus rides in this one precious life.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Allow the troubled, complex world to collapse into identifiable points of easily rendered resentment. Cling to a satisfying fire and use it to hold one’s demons at bay.”

10. “Allow the troubled, complex world to collapse into identifiable points of easily rendered resentment. Cling to a satisfying fire and use it to hold one’s demons at bay.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Dad slugged back the Rolling Rock. He used to only drink Budweiser until those commercials with the frogs came out. He’d said, “Welp. Can’t drink moron beer,” finished the rest of his Budweiser that night and, as far as Dan knew, had yet to touch another.”

11. “Dad slugged back the Rolling Rock. He used to only drink Budweiser until those commercials with the frogs came out. He’d said, “Welp. Can’t drink moron beer,” finished the rest of his Budweiser that night and, as far as Dan knew, had yet to touch another.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “The house sat at the end of the street, forlorn, the lawn browning, a testament to how the world never works out the way you think it will, let alone the way you want it to.”

12. “The house sat at the end of the street, forlorn, the lawn browning, a testament to how the world never works out the way you think it will, let alone the way you want it to.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “No matter where you went or how novel it seemed when you first pulled into town, it always turned into the same bars, same food, same women, same politics, same liquor, same drugs, same troubles.”

13. “No matter where you went or how novel it seemed when you first pulled into town, it always turned into the same bars, same food, same women, same politics, same liquor, same drugs, same troubles.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “He thought of how cruelty created chain reactions, how one act could set off events, could eat through floors like acid, so to think of all the systematic cruelty in the world was to think of acid burning from one floor of a skyscraper down to the basement.”

14. “He thought of how cruelty created chain reactions, how one act could set off events, could eat through floors like acid, so to think of all the systematic cruelty in the world was to think of acid burning from one floor of a skyscraper down to the basement.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “Thinking about this cage he lived in, this prison where it felt like he’d spend the entirety of his life, cradle to grave, measuring the distance between his most modest hopes and all the cheap regret he actually ended up living. You passed your time in the cage, he figured, by clinging pointlessly and desperately to an endless series of unfinished sorrows.”

15. “Thinking about this cage he lived in, this prison where it felt like he’d spend the entirety of his life, cradle to grave, measuring the distance between his most modest hopes and all the cheap regret he actually ended up living. You passed your time in the cage, he figured, by clinging pointlessly and desperately to an endless series of unfinished sorrows.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “I plan on never being surprised by what this country’s capable of ever again.”

16. “I plan on never being surprised by what this country’s capable of ever again.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “The natural world existed for her, as it did for most of the Global North, only as another theme park, a Disneyland. One of the luxuries of modernity was never having to consider how the asphalt from a parking lot could crush soil, disrupt a delicate system, banish a pocket of insects, birds, or small mammals to ruin. Or that this parking lot was merely a microcosm of something far larger and darker: a war on the living biosphere.”

17. “The natural world existed for her, as it did for most of the Global North, only as another theme park, a Disneyland. One of the luxuries of modernity was never having to consider how the asphalt from a parking lot could crush soil, disrupt a delicate system, banish a pocket of insects, birds, or small mammals to ruin. Or that this parking lot was merely a microcosm of something far larger and darker: a war on the living biosphere.”

— Stephen Markley

Stephen Markley Quote: “He fell into sleep so cavernous it felt less like rest than an excision of memory.”

18. “He fell into sleep so cavernous it felt less like rest than an excision of memory.”

— Stephen Markley

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