Dave Eggers Quotes
Dave Eggers Quotes
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
1760 You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.
4307 I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.
3642 I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
2611 But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
3087 We are unusual and tragic and alive.
2579 I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.
4141 I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.
4957 How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
3160 Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.
-After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
1129 Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.
3874 He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
4519 Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
1441 The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.
3608 This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality.
3789 It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
4759 Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.
3513 You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
2651 All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
4544 Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
4233 The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away.
1780 The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.
4834 The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
3853 Director of Ensuring the Future
2191 This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
4582 We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
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