Don’t Die Quotes

“Actually, it might even do the opposite.” Model Builder: “Our bodies turn anything we eat into the proper food it needs. You can lose weight eating whatever you want as long as you count calories and take a vitamin pill. We all know that.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Less sleep does not get more done. It just shrinks the value of what’s happening.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Change is hard; being miserable is harder.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“brain is just a bunch of cells degrading together because we’re basically just an overclocked ape.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“11
Brave Old”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“No. Unfortunately you have to come to terms with the idea that life itself is the reward. That is the song we pay”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“And we further know that the brain is stitching things together, after the fact, all to make one’s behaviors, wants, motivations, and thoughts appear to be both obvious and carefully considered. But are they?”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“The body is not a calculator. Life is not just the pursuit of quantified records.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“So of course some aspects of ‘optimal’ will include pain or suffering or hardship. We all know that’s how this works.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“The Earth has to balance its extraordinarily complex biosphere just as our body has to fight to achieve balance in what it lords over. It’s all the same. Systems balancing themselves.”
― Bryan Zero Johnson, DON'T DIE: Dialogues

“Think how insane the modern world is. We sit with glass boxes in our rooms and can beam almost every single surviving song, picture, or film into this glass box in an instant. And what do we do with that? We use it to look at what other people are doing to feel bad about ourselves. That’s insane.”
― Zero, DON'T DIE: Dialogues