Everybody Quotes

“Love. My one true friend. The others have deserted me, every one; I loved them better than my Love alone.”
― Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody

“Why are we all such lying, stupid sacks of garbage? Why do artists and politicians and religious figures who talk and write and preach about all this bullshit get all our praise, when it’s clearly all just a vast conspiracy, a bunch of garbage lies we tell each other to cover up the fact that we are a bunch of useless, stupid animals with nothing else to do but— what? See how much damage we can cause to everything and get away with? Make more of ourselves? Why?! To keep this deception alive? This selfishness? This cruelty? Fuck!”
― Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody

“No. You're not some sort of isolated phenomenon. The very basis of your Self is just a genetic mishmash of other Selves. You are a part of something. Think of the long line of accidents and miracles and struggles and victories that it took to bring you into life.
When you hold all that in your head, doesn't it almost feel like... like... sacred or holy or-- that the very fact of your being alive proves a connection between you and the very beginning of everything, to -- to God.”
― Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody

“No. You're not some sort of isolated phenomenon. The very basis of your Self is just a genetic mishmash of other Selves. You are a part of something. Think of the long line of accidents and miracles and struggles and victories that it took to bring you into life.
When you hold all that in your head, doesn't it almost feel like... like... sacred or holy or-- that the very fact of your being alive proves a connection between you and the very beginning of everything, to -- to God”
― Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody

“You had to participate in society! You had to live! ...Right?
Wait--Did you have to live? Why did you have to live again?”
― Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody