The best Quotes by Nick Hornby

I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide by tiny, tiny increments.

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

High Fidelity

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

High Fidelity

Friendship Family

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

High Fidelity

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

High Fidelity

Tom Hanks

My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

High Fidelity

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

High Fidelity

Breakup

That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

High Fidelity

Solitude & Loneliness

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

High Fidelity

Depression

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

High Fidelity

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

High Fidelity

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

High Fidelity

Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

A Long Way Down

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

A Long Way Down

Death

There's nothing you can't f up if you try hard enough.

A Long Way Down

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

A Long Way Down

Puns Relationships Family

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

A Long Way Down

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

A Long Way Down

I read the f*ck out of every book I can get my hands on.

A Long Way Down

Reading

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

A Long Way Down

Talking

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

A Long Way Down

Beginning

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Fever Pitch

Quotes about Football/Soccer Falling in love

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Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breast that I would try to touch her between her legs. It was like trying to borrow a dollar, getting turned down, and asking for 50 grand instead.

Rob Gordon in High Fidelity

Rob, top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the '80s and '90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?

Barry Judd in High Fidelity

Stevie Wonder

The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway... I've started to make a tape... in my head... for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.

Rob Gordon in High Fidelity

I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day. That was four years ago.

Rob Gordon in High Fidelity

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Tom Hanks

Solitude & Loneliness

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

William Paul Young in The Shack

Friendship Family

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

Solitude & Loneliness

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by a-sholes.

(often misattributed to William Gibson or Sigmund Freud)

Depression

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Kurt Cobain

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Karl May

Death

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