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These Joseph Fink Quotes Will Change The Way You Look At Life

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These Joseph Fink Quotes Will Change The Way You Look At Life

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

Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Alone Problems struggles

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None of us knows what we want to do when we’re his age. When we’re your age, when you’re my age. Any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we’re right, but only ever in retrospect.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Age Career Confused

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

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Feelings Pain Heartache

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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, Welcome to Night Vale

Comfort Relaxation Escape

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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

Reason live in the moment actions

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People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Time Age Wisdom

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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

Meaning Life World

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She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Showers Clean Lonely

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Look, life is stressful. This is true everywhere.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Stress worries Life

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Everything I do is for a reason. And I don't know what that reason is. Everything I do is for a reason, and I know none of them. Everything makes sense, and the sense is hidden from me.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Reasons actions Meaning

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When nothing else works, eating sure does.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

eating food Depression

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To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Remembered Memories rights

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She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Anger Fear Feelings

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The search for truth takes us to dangerous places.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Truth Knowledge Learning

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Your life is your life. You haven’t lost it. It’s just different now.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Life Changes different

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How do you say everything you’ve wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn’t know you at all?

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Celebrities Role Models Famous

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All information was important information, even if the reasons were not immediately apparent.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

information Knowledge Learning

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If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

actions Judgements Judged

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What does it mean when you know you’re feeling something but you don’t know what that feeling is?

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Feelings emotions Confused

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Not everybody gets to be friends with everybody.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Friends Friendship People

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Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Desperate Empathy Thinking

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There’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Assumptions mean Judgements

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Things may not be as they seem.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Deception Lies Confusion

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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

Sleep Dreams Reality

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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

Lazy Shy antisocial

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The problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

fair unfair Questions

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People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

beauty Attraction Beautiful

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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

Words Communication Confusion

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Fear is a reasonable response to life.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Fear Life Scared

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Some people prefer to make their homes so neat that there is no evidence of life anywhere at all.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Homes Clean Tidy

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