455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.

There is travel and there are babies," he said, stepping out. "Everything else is drudgery and death.

You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it’s some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don’t we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can't count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us upright. They hold up everyone and everything