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“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”
― 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

“Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.”
― 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

“We live in a pattern that we'll never detect, and that will shuffle us through invisible hierarchies to the actual death of us.”
― Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

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

“I’m not afraid,” she declared, and she wasn’t. 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, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“You're a good one, Jackie Fierro," they said. "And that makes the world a dangerous place for you.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Not everybody gets to be friends with everybody.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.”
― Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

“When nothing else works, eating sure does.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It is a terrible, terrible beauty that I do not understand.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale