Calvin And Hobbes is a comic I forgot about after all these years. But I never realized how thought provoking the quotes were.
There’s so many life lessons dancing around in the majority of the quotes taken from Calvin And Hobbes. And it’s not hard to see the message, the lesson, and what you can learn from each one.
And even apply it to your life.
Here are some of the best quotes worth sharing.
The BEST Calvin And Hobbes Quotes:
1. Calvin Quotes
“There’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.” – Calvin
“Becoming an adult is probably the dumest thing you could ever do.” – Calvin
“How old do you have to be before you know what’s going on?” – Calvin
“I think grown ups just act like they know what they’re doing.” – Calvin
“Happiness isn’t good enough for me, I demand Euphoria!” – Calvin
“Know what’s weird? Day to day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different.” – Calvin
“No one recognizes my hints to smother me with affection.” – Calvin
“I am the culmination of creation!” – Calvin
“Your denial of my victimhood is lowering my self esteem!” – Calvin
“Why should I have to work for everything? It’s like I don’t deserve it!” – Calvin
“Dad, are you vocariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life, and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?” – Calvin
“Given that sooner or later, we’re all just going to die, what’s the point of learning about integers?” – Calvin
“You just go about your business and one day you realize you’re not the same person you used to be. People change whether they decide to or not!” – Calvin
“Life’s too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who’s got an idea how I ought to be! I don’t need advice! Everyone can just stay
out of my face.” – Calvin
“Do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s inside our hearts?” – Calvin
“Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any prepostreous delussion, rather than face an occassional bleak truth?” – Calvin
“If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters. So you’re never upset.” – Calvin
“Change is invigorating! If you don’t accept new challenges you become complacent and lazy. Your life atrophies!” – Calvin
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Calvin
“We seem to understand the value of oil, timber, minerals and housing, but not the value of unspoiled beauty, wildlife, solitude and spiritual renewal.” – Calvin
“I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.” – Calvin
“I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrongheaded crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man.” – Calvin
“Why does the universe always give you the sign after
you do it?” – Calvin
“Great experiences are even better when they’re shared.” – Calvin
“When a person pauses in mid sentence to choose a word, that’s the best time to jump in and change the subject.” – Calvin
“Nothing is permanent, everything changes. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world.” – Calvin
“I find my life is easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.” – Calvin
“What on earth am I doing in here on this beautiful day? This is the only life I’ve got!” – Calvin
“I tell you Hobbes, it’s great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of ideas.” – Calvin
“We hurl through an incomprehensible darkness. In cosmic terms, we are submatomic particles in a grain of sand on an infinite beach.” – Calvin
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Calvin
“Here I am, waiting for the bus. Eleven more years of school to go. Then college, then maybe graduate school, and then I work untill I die.” – Calvin
“It’s a hard, bitter, cruel world to have to grow up in, Hobbes.” – Calvin
“Isn’t it weird that ones own past can seem unreal? This is like looking at a picture of someone else.” – Calvin
“Oh greatest of the mass media, thank you for elevating emotion, reducing thought, and stifling imagination.” – Calvin
“I must say, the future if quite a bit different than I expected.” – Calvin
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Calvin
“It offends the human ego that nature is indifferent to us.” – Calvin
“Ya know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.” – Calvin
“A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.” – Calvin
“I like to experience life to the fullest. I say you don’t fully appreciate life until you risk losing it.” – Calvin
“I wondered, is it better to do the right thing and fail or is it better to do the wrong thing and succeed?” – Calvin
“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?” – Calvin
“Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside.” – Calvin
2. Hobbes Quotes
“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?” – Hobbes
“I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.” – Hobbes
“Is it a right to remain ignorant?” – Hobbes
“If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some.” – Hobbes
“If people could put rainbows in zoos, they’d do it!” – Hobbes
“Somehow, it’s always right now until it’s later.” – Hobbes
“Sometimes one should just look at things and think about things, without doing things.” – Hobbes
“I think our actions shows what’s inside our hearts.” – Hobbes
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This was lovely, Calvin and Hobbes feel like some of my closest friends.