Dan Howell
19 quotes
"My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy."
"You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within."
"This experience coming from a childhood hearing the word gay meaninglessly thrown around as an insult at home and school, in music, on TV, to then realizing I am actually kinda gay, to then very specifically being attacked for it, was traumatic."
"I have a platform and a following of millions of people, many of whom I know have been through exactly what I have. And if I tell my story, as painful and flip floppy and flawed as it is, I know it will mean something to someone, as every time someone speaks openly about sexuality, it saves lives."
"We get dealt cards from the start, too. If you look at my life, I was born into this world as an able-bodied, white, cis man in Britain, which immediately gives me so much privilege in this current world and I am fully aware of how much harder making it to today could have been for me, which is why we all need to stand up for equality and social justice, even if it doesn't apply to us."
"I’m here, I’m queer, and don’t worry, I’m still full of existential fear."
"If a gay person dyes their hair, they are a visibly spiraling crisis twink. [...] That is a stereotype, and you know what, some stereotypes are true, and that is one of them."
"I’ve come out of the closet, now I just need the confidence to actually leave the house."
"Every single one of us needs to be there for each other, not just in the big profound ways but sometimes just the really small and important ways."
"School friends don’t have to be people that you actually get on with, they’re just people that you bond with after sharing a traumatic situation for several years."
"Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life."
"I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'."
"You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can."
"I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly."
"Holy mother of rectangles."
"To me, the meaning of a human life is to be happy. It's to achieve happiness right now, it's to make sure you're happy in the future. And if some people on YouTube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is: do whatever you have to do to be happy."
"Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets."
"Embrace the void and have the courage to exist."
"wtf even is my sexuality"