Quotes

Positive
''Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together, you and I. ''- Welcome to Night Vale

''Night Vale is an ancient place. Full of history and secrets, as we were reminded today... but it is also a place of the present moment, full of life; and of us. If you can hear my voice, speaking live, then you know; we are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?'' - Welcome to Night Vale

Harsh and Gentle Truths
''Time is like wax, dripping from a candle flame. In the moment, it is molten and falling, with the capability to transform into any shape. Then the moment passes, and the wax hits the tabletop and solidifies into the shape it will always be. It becomes the past, a solid, single record of what happened, still holding in its wild curves and contours the potential of every shape it could have held.'' - Welcome to Night Vale

''When we talk about teenagers, we adults often talk with an air of scorn, of expectation for disappointment... and this can make people who are presently teenagers feel very defensive; but, what everyone should understand is that none uf us are talking to the teenagers that exist now, but talking back to the teenager we ourselves once were- all stupid mistakes and lack of fear, and bodies that hadn't yet begun to slump into a lasting nothing. Any teenager who exists now is incidental to the potent mix of nostalgia and shame with which we speak to our younger selves. ''- Welcome to Night Vale

''Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are... but that's not the right question. The question is, are we living a life that is worth the harm?'' - Welcome to Night Vale

Existential (Negative)
''Hello, listeners. In breaking news: the sky. The Earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plane with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance. We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. Ladies. Gentlemen. Listeners. You. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this.'' - Welcome to Night Vale

Funny
Also, be warned that penalties for overdue library books has skyrocketed to fifty cents per day, and, after thirty days, jaw mutilation. - Welcome to Night Vale