J.J. Abrams > Quotes

“It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“He walks among us, but is not with us.”
― J.J. Abrams

“The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change."
"+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“I don't think it was hate,' Castus replied thoughtfully. 'I think it was fear.”
― J.J. Abrams, The Dragons Curse

“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over others, over ourselves.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“He can see the stars; he no longer has a need for the constellations”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“All you can do is button your coat, lace your boots, and trudge through the frigid business of being.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams, S.

“Well, we're all victims of our own gene pool. Unfortunately, someone must have peed in yours. - Walter Bishop, "Fringe" (TV)”
― JJ Abrams

“This is where his life - his remade life - has brought him. Each strange juncture has led to the next and now he is here. He is here, and it is nowhere.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“Every story has at least a little truth in it. Every story comes from somewhere.”
― J.J. Abrams

“That night's dream: a narrow column of dark liquid in a tall glass; a blue-black waterspout plunging from the sky; a swirl of black-fruit icing piped over a pastry hot from the oven; a long, feminine finger laid over lips; a torrent of whispers that that finger cannot hush.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you.”
― J.J. Abrams

“Jen- I have to tell you - I haven't said this before but I've wanted to + now I want to say it all the time: I LOVE YOU. I love you on the page + I love you in the library + in the coffee shop + in the last row of the Varsity. I love you here. I love you in negitive space - ok, i don't know exactly what that means but i'm pretty sure its true - + I love who you have been + who you will be. I should say this to you in person, and i'm going to - over & over - but I think I needed to say it here first. Jennifer Heyward, I love you.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“Don't you give up a part of yourself when you devote yourself to anything?”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“It occurs to me that hearts and souls and lives can themselves be sites of unimaginable suffering.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“Their history, mine, yours... A story of... choises.”
― JJ Abrams Doug Dorst

“To be self rewritten from a lost first draft.”
― J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

“You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me.”
― J.J. Abrams

“But if enough people think of you a certain way, it becomes true. Even if it's not true.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“This," he says, "is precisely what campfires are for. The sharing of stories. There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative."

S. nods. He understands Stenfalk's proposition intuitively; we create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over others, over ourselves.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“Better a change than an end.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“All that ink, all that pigment, all that desperate action to preserve that which had been created--- it is valuable because story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“I will tell you what matters most...: it is love. When you fall in love, friends, let yourself fall.”
― Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.”
― J.J. Abrams

“What if the constellations no longer held?
[...] Would it not cause one to scrutinize the totality of one's surroundings carefully? Would it not terrify?”
― J.J. Abrams, S. Ship of Theseus.

“For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive, ...”
― JJ Abrams Doug Dorst

“A person is no more & no less than the story of passions & deeds.”
― JJ Abrams Doug Dorst