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Top 10 Tess Gunty Quotes (2025 Update)

Tess Gunty Quote: “I’m surprised I called you good. Not because I think you’re bad – it would be absurd to describe a whole person as good or bad. You’re just a series of messy, contradicting behaviours like everyone else. Those behaviours can become patterns or instincts, and some are better than others. But as long as you’re alive, the jury’s out.”

1. “I’m surprised I called you good. Not because I think you’re bad – it would be absurd to describe a whole person as good or bad. You’re just a series of messy, contradicting behaviours like everyone else. Those behaviours can become patterns or instincts, and some are better than others. But as long as you’re alive, the jury’s out.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “You’re trapped inside yourself no matter how many degrees you get.”

2. “You’re trapped inside yourself no matter how many degrees you get.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “Listen to me very closely: being looked at is not the same as being seen.”

3. “Listen to me very closely: being looked at is not the same as being seen.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “It was a Wednesday night. Which it always seemed to be in those days.”

4. “It was a Wednesday night. Which it always seemed to be in those days.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “Because one day you will die, I promise, and mortality does not care if you believe in it.”

5. “Because one day you will die, I promise, and mortality does not care if you believe in it.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “The streets you walk, the food you eat, the job you work, the method of transportation you choose, the beauty products you purchase, the shows you watch, the links you click, the way you sit on a train, the way your speak to waiters, the way you take your coffee – everything affects everyone. Find a way to believe this, even when sober.”

6. “The streets you walk, the food you eat, the job you work, the method of transportation you choose, the beauty products you purchase, the shows you watch, the links you click, the way you sit on a train, the way your speak to waiters, the way you take your coffee – everything affects everyone. Find a way to believe this, even when sober.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “In general, she feels too much or too little, interacts too much or too little – never the right amount. It seems to her that she’s spent her whole life sitting in a laundromat, freaking people out.”

7. “In general, she feels too much or too little, interacts too much or too little – never the right amount. It seems to her that she’s spent her whole life sitting in a laundromat, freaking people out.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “Joan’s body contorts with desire to be elsewhere.”

8. “Joan’s body contorts with desire to be elsewhere.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman’s side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to her as though she were their mother – a cherished one – and Joan understood that human tenderness was not to be mocked. It was the last real thing.”

9. “On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman’s side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to her as though she were their mother – a cherished one – and Joan understood that human tenderness was not to be mocked. It was the last real thing.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “You couldn’t go anywhere in this town without bumping into God.”

10. “You couldn’t go anywhere in this town without bumping into God.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “Reggie crosses the room to his wife, because in fifty-six years of marriage, she has never crossed the room to him.”

11. “Reggie crosses the room to his wife, because in fifty-six years of marriage, she has never crossed the room to him.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “James watches a line of ants march out of the kitchen drain, up the sink, into his life.”

12. “James watches a line of ants march out of the kitchen drain, up the sink, into his life.”

Tess Gunty Quote: “Well, Joan, between you and me, I’m giving mysticism a go, myself. I think I have a real shot. From what I can tell, theism isn’t a necessary prerequisite. All I want is to exit my body.”

13. “Well, Joan, between you and me, I’m giving mysticism a go, myself. I think I have a real shot. From what I can tell, theism isn’t a necessary prerequisite. All I want is to exit my body.”

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