Top 40 Tim Tharp Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there’s another one tomorrow. I’m going to start making them count.”

— Tim Tharp

2. “To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.”

— Tim Tharp

3. “Just remember this- weird’s good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it’s never going away.”

— Tim Tharp

4. “Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.”

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5. “Besides, it doesn’t matter if it’s real. It never does with dreams. They aren’t anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don’t drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

— Tim Tharp

6. “Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.”

— Tim Tharp

7. “Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.”

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8. “Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

— Tim Tharp

9. “She’s drenched and bedraggled, but I’ve never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That’s how I know I’ll have to give her up.”

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10. “I’m not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business.”

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11. “That’s how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must’ve got left out.”

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12. “You just go around acting like you’re saving other people so you don’t have to deal with your own problems.”

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13. “Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.”

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14. “It’s more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it’s too late to ask what it was.”

— Tim Tharp

15. “The best thing about now, is that there’s another one tomorrow.”

— Tim Tharp

16. “She might be the only girl I’ve ever met who still hasn’t learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion’s sake.”

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17. “You’re nothing but a product. And what’s this product called? Emptiness, dude, that’s what it’s called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.”

— Tim Tharp

18. “Goodbye. Goodbye. I can’t feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.”

— Tim Tharp

19. “You think, ‘Here’s something I can hold on to,’ but it always slips away.”

— Tim Tharp

20. “I like to think there’s more to a person than just one thing.”

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21. “Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”

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22. “They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.”

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23. “That’s how it is online – there’s no time in cyberspace. It’s almost like everything physical evaporates, and it’s just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.”

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24. “But with this February sun, see, the light’s absolutely pure and makes the colors of the sky and the tree limbs and the bricks on these suburban houses so clean that just looking at them is like inhaling purified air. The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.”

— Tim Tharp

25. “That’s all right,′ she says, and I have to wonder how many times she’s said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow.”

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26. “I’ve never seen her laugh like this before. It’s a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World’s Largest Prairie Dog.”

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27. “Just wait. Someone’s going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you’re you.”

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28. “Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.”

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29. “Our whole society’s a training ground for addicts.”

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30. “Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it’d be a marshmallow.”

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31. “The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you’re always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you’ll never accomplish anything.”

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32. “I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it’s enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.”

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33. “See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.”

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34. “This idea comes to me that we’re all grass blades on the same lawn. We’ve grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades – somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.”

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35. “Nothing helps. I’m a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.”

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36. “You have to stop thinking that way. Don’t worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that’s the biggest power you can have.”

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37. “The only way you’re going to get something to last in this world is to work at it.”

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38. “My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don’t you? It’s a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time.”

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39. “Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it’s good.”

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40. “Besides, it doesn’t matter if it’s real. It never does with dreams. They aren’t anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don’t drown.”

— Tim Tharp

41. “Uh, sure, if it doesn’t take too long. I’m supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They’ll probably send a car by for me if I’m late.”

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42. “No,′ I say l. ‘It’s not all right. But I couldn’t help it.”

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43. “Nothing lasts. You think it’s going to. You think ‘Here’s something I can hold on to’, but it always slips away.”

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44. “You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.”

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45. “That’s how our system works. It’s a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society’s a training ground for addicts.”

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46. “This looks interesting,” I say, but what I’m really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What’s next, anime?”

— Tim Tharp