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Theodore Decker Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Secret of Secrey, Mystery, The Magic of Not Understanding, Quote of the Moment
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Depression, Emptiness, Revulsion
“The heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Impossible Ideas
“Act of rebellion. Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. Why not beat Fate to the punch?”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Suicide
“A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Magic of Being Misunderstood, Being Otherworldly In The World, The Secret of Secrey
“Whenever she smiled at me Heaven blew in.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Love, Infatuation, Quote of the Moment
“Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it’s there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it’s not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy
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