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50 Night Vale Quotes For When Your Depression Hits And You Just Want To Smile Again

I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm sure of lots of things that are wrong. I'm highly fallible.
Holly Riordan
March 14, 2017
“Live every day like it's your first.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, love life, Life
“A bird in the hand could be worth your life when bargaining with the swarms of birds circling above you.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, Birds, bargaining
“Seven Habits of Highly Effective People:
1 Wear dark suit & shades
2 Hide
3 Whisper into wrist
4 Nod
5 [REDACTED]
6 Use codename
7 Drive van”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Success, habits, Effective
“Ask your doctor why bad things happen to good people. Ask your doctor why it all has to be this way. Sob on your doctor's shoulder.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: doctors, Questions, Crying
“Put your money where your mouth is. Better put your keys, phone & ID in there too. Lots of pickpockets in the streets.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Pickpockets, Money, Mouth, Cliches
“Home is where the heart is. It’s also where the cameras and listening devices are. Also insects. Lots of insects in that home.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, Home, heart
“If you’re happy and you know it, you’re wanted for questioning.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Happiness, Happy, Questioning
“The same math that makes it almost impossible for us to be alone in the universe also makes it almost impossible we'll meet any other beings.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Aliens, Universe, Math
“There's no way to avoid becoming a statistic. Just try to become a good statistic.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Statistics, Success, Positivity
“If you fear something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s probably going to kill you.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, Freedom, Murder
“If you can't say anything nice, you could say really awful things instead. It's an option.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, Nice, Nasty
“Today's forecast: Sunny w/ a chance that for a moment you'll feel really great about yourself & your life. Savor those moments as they come.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Forecast, Positivity, Happiness
“Missed connections: I saw you in passing once and forgot you soon after. You never even saw me. We went on to live long, full lives.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Missed Connections, Love, Dating
“Wanna feel old? Make comparative judgments based on how long you’ve been alive versus how long younger people have been alive. Wild.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Age, Old, comparisons
“See? You never needed that wand or that cape. The power to feel unfocused shame and anxiety was within you this whole time.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Anxiety, Shame, Superhero
“Be careful what you wish for, because it probably won't come true and life is mostly about expectation management.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Cliches, Expectations, wishes
“I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm sure of lots of things that are wrong. I'm highly fallible.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Fine, Wrong, Mistakes
“At home by yourself tonight? Just look closely in the background of any mirror. You are most certainly not alone.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Mirrors, Alone, Lonely
“Do you ever just sit outside at night, look up at the stars, and know basically nothing about the world you live in?”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Stars, unknown, Night
“Not really killing time so much as euthanizing it.”
— Night Vale podcast
Tagged: Time, Killing, Euthanizing