“It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.”
―
Noah Hawley,
Before the Fall
“Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.And then it's over.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.” ― Noah Hawley, The Good Father
“In the absence of facts.... we tell ourselves stories.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“It’s hard to be sad when you’re being useful. And he liked that idea. That service to others brought happiness. It was self-involvement that led to depression, to spiraling questions about the meaning of things.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.” ― Noah Hawley, Other People's Weddings
“Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on?” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“...people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“هنر نه تنها در آثار هنری، بلکه در ذهن نظاره گران نیز وجود دارد.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“At last count there were more than four hundred and twenty million guns in America (population 330,000,000). This makes America a Chekhov play, in which a gun shown in Act One must be fired in Act Two. In other words, if you think the next act of American life is going to unfold without gunfire, you’re not paying attention.” ― Noah Hawley, Anthem
“You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.And then it's over.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.” ― Noah Hawley, The Good Father
“In the absence of facts.... we tell ourselves stories.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“It’s hard to be sad when you’re being useful. And he liked that idea. That service to others brought happiness. It was self-involvement that led to depression, to spiraling questions about the meaning of things.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.” ― Noah Hawley, Other People's Weddings
“Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave? What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remains obsessed, even as our bodies move on?” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“...people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“هنر نه تنها در آثار هنری، بلکه در ذهن نظاره گران نیز وجود دارد.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“At last count there were more than four hundred and twenty million guns in America (population 330,000,000). This makes America a Chekhov play, in which a gun shown in Act One must be fired in Act Two. In other words, if you think the next act of American life is going to unfold without gunfire, you’re not paying attention.” ― Noah Hawley, Anthem
“You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
“David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.” ― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
