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60 Of The Best Lemony Snicket Quotes On Love, Loss And The Timeless Importance Of Literature

For when you need someone who understands the utter absurdity of life. 
Heidi Priebe
June 16, 2016
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Tagged: Life, Fate, Destiny, Self-Direction
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
— Lemony Snicket, Unknown
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Metaphors
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: Waiting, Taking Action, motivation, Self-Direction
“I will love you if I never see you again and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Change
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
Tagged: Love, Humour, Relationships, Justice
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13)
Tagged: Life, The World, humanity, Good, Evil
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Literature, Books, Trust
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Books, Literature, Good, Evil
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
— Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
Tagged: Reading, Literature, Books, Learning, humor
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
— Lemony Snicket, The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
Tagged: Loneliness
“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
— Lemony Snicket, The End(A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
Tagged: humor, enemies, Human Condition
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Writing, Literature, Authors, Reading
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events(13 Book Series)
Tagged: Crying, Sadness, Pain
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Books, Literature
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Love, Change
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Optimism
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Books, Literature, Evil
“A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Weeping, Crying, Sadness, Grief, Loss
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: student, studying, School, Reading, Literature, Books
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Quest, Discovery, Timing, Waiting, Taking Action, Being Proactive
“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, 'Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed,' but most of us would say something more along the lines of, 'Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!'”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Optimism, Pessimism, humor
“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Control, Fate, Helplessness
“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: First Impressions
“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Literature, Books, humor, Moral
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Taking Chances, Taking Risks, Comfort, humor
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Literature, humor
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Understanding, Reality, Accepting Reality
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called 'The Road Less Traveled', describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: humor, Poetry, The Road Less Traveled
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)
Tagged: Reading, Literature, Books