Joseph Fink > Quotes

“Fear is a reasonable response to life.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”
― Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

“It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm?

Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“The search for truth takes us to dangerous places,” said Old Woman Josie. “Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting than doing that same quiet action in parallel with fellow humans doing the same action, everyone alone next to each other.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: We don’t understand even more.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“The universe is unraveling. It still is. We won the day. We won the battle. We won whatever unit of measurement you care to say that we won. We returned to the dangerous equilibrium we had before, which we can only assume, or hope, or wish is better. But, of course, we did not stop the unraveling of the universe. The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the entire span of human existence going back and back and, if we are lucky, forward and forward – the entire span is spent within this dissolve.

So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. The bustle of the human day will come and will go. And then there will be night.

But how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing world! Everything good ever done! Everything good that was done today, and all the good people doing it, and back and back and forward and forward, all of that beauty within a universe unraveling.

Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet it is. How unlikely! How fantastic! And stupid. And excellent”
― Joseph Fink

“In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else,” said Josie, “and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sometimes it is easy to forget which things in the world can feel pain and which cannot.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“there’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.”
― joseph fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“We are skipping Friday this week, but we’ll make up for it by having Double Friday next week. Mark your schedules.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sometimes it's okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!