David Mitchell Quotes

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.