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Clancy's photo with a quote by Duncan Trussell: "We've just barely stopped being monkeys."| Source: youtube.com/Netflix
Clancy's photo with a quote by Duncan Trussell: "We've just barely stopped being monkeys."| Source: youtube.com/Netflix

45 ‘Midnight Gospel’ Quotes and Sayings from Duncan Trussell’s Podcast

Sonali Bharadwaj
Apr 18, 2023
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"The Midnight Gospel," Duncan Trussell's eight-episode visual podcast, takes you on a spiritual and emotional journey with the show's space podcaster Clancy's help. Depicting the interesting portrayal of life in the show, here are some insightful Midnight Gospel quotes. Read these 45 quotes to get a better picture of the animated series.

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"The Midnight Gospel" is an eight-episode visual podcast hosted by Charles Duncan Trussell, an American actor, voice actor, and stand-up comedian. The show recounts the experience of Clancy, a 20-something space podcaster who travels from Earth to a double-helix-shaped floating landscape and interviews beings in a universe simulator.

Each show episode has guests from various backgrounds, such as a mortician, an author, or a former criminal, which intrigues viewers. Emotional and profound, though absurd, the show is an animated adult series that begins with Clancy listening to a radio song that represents the show's overall narrative and his struggle.

Depicting Clancy's life in a tranquil setting, the show acknowledges the problems and diverse elements of life, some of which will make you laugh and others of which will make you cry. Here are 45 Midnight Gospel quotes that are both moving and enlightening.

Duncan Trussell's quote: "I love being a carbon molecule." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "I love being a carbon molecule." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

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'Midnight Gospel' Quotes Filled with Inspiring Thoughts of Love

"I may leave this plane of existence sooner rather than later, but the love isn't going anywhere." Duncan Trussell, The Midnight Gospel

"When we set an intention, somehow the world seems to magically come to meet us." – Duncan Trussell, The Midnight Gospel

"I love being a carbon molecule." – Duncan Trussell

"…love means how happy you can make another person. think of generosity, think of like when you start thinking of someone else and wanting to give them anything." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"The amazing thing about letting go into it is that you find that this thing called love is supportive. That it holds us." – Duncan Trussell, The Midnight Gospel

Duncan Trussell's quote: "If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

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"Saying 'I love you' does not mean that you love me. Completely embracing me and forgiving me and being in the moment with me that's love." – Duncan Trussell

"The moment you accept things as they are, you don't need to hope anymore, because you realize where you are is kind of okay." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"Put the past aside and the future aside and get sense into your bodies." – Duncan Trussell

"If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love." – Duncan Trussell

"and the amazing thing about letting go into it is that you find that this thing called love is supportive, that it holds us." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

Duncan Trussell's quote: "The time of death is uncertain, but death is certain." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "The time of death is uncertain, but death is certain." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

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'Midnight Gospel' Quotes Filled with Useful Experience

"The time of death is uncertain, but death is certain." – Duncan Trussell

"There's no rules. The main rule is this is your incarnation and you get to do what you want with it. The idea is to, as much as you can, expand in your levels of happiness and your awareness so you can feel connected and good in this existence." – Duncan Trussell

"Putting your gimp in a leather sun dress is self care." – Duncan Trussell

"If you just follow the breadcrumbs of your desires, then strangely they will lure you into the direction of paradise." – Duncan Trussell

"There's no better way to learn about magic than on a deep sea adventure talking to a magical fishbowl man." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

Duncan Trussell's quote: "True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

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"Following in another man's path is dangerous. Do what you're drawn to, no what you think you should be doing. Do the thing you're attracted to doing, That's what you're meant to do. That's who you are." – Duncan Trussell

"If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you'll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we're all so terrified of the judgement of our peers." – Duncan Trussell

"True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place." – Duncan Trussell

"Any spiritual practice that is trying to, like, get to something... Buddhist perspective is like, 'Dude, you're grinding in World of Warcraft'." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"Even the hurt transforms because if you inquire into the hurt, you know what you're experiencing is love." – Duncan Trussell

Quote from "The Midnight Gospel": "One of my favorite statements is, you know, “health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality’s terms." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Quote from "The Midnight Gospel": "One of my favorite statements is, you know, “health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality’s terms." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

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"I don't want to kill the moth, because they deserve to live. They happen to be in the cave of a super-advanced monkey species that wants nothing more than to kill them just because they don't fit in." – Duncan Trussell

"Love is a word that has been hijacked by greeting card companies, cult leaders, sentimentalists, pop singers, false prophets, romcoms, McDonald's, and a million other unsavory types, who transform the most incredible thing that humans can experience into an inflatable, gaudy imitation of itself that they use for their selfish desires and nefarious marketing campaigns. These b****rds have made the highest and most intense experience accessible to humans almost impossible to talk about without feeling embarrassed." – Duncan Trussell

"One of my favorite statements is, you know, "health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality's terms." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"You have to begin to ask yourself which components of my belief system are things that I arrived through naturally from my observation of nature, and which parts of them are placed into me by system that is designed to turn people into consumers. And I think more often than not that a greater percentage of your personality is not you at all. It's a tapestry that has been cleverly woven by a system designed to make people feel totally normal spending the majority of their lives driving in a commute and working in a s**t job and being tired all the time." – Duncan Trussell

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"Stop fighting it. Face the void." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

Duncan Trussell's quote: "I do think that we suffer more if we resist the flow of the river." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "I do think that we suffer more if we resist the flow of the river." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

"What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it." – Duncan Trussell

"I do think that we suffer more if we resist the flow of the river." – Duncan Trussell

'Midnight Gospel' Quotes to Provoke Deep Thoughts

"Thought prisons are the best prisons to get into, because you have the key and you can get out." – Duncan Trussell

"You are essentially just a cloud of atoms that will eventually be aerosolized by time." – Duncan Trussell

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"Your life that you thought was real was just a dream." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

Quote from "The Midnight gospel": "There’s No Way To Stop A Heartbreak. How Do You Do That? You Cry." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Quote from "The Midnight gospel": "There’s No Way To Stop A Heartbreak. How Do You Do That? You Cry." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

"Our hearts have been closed because we've closed them. We've defended ourselves against pain." – Duncan Trussell

"We've just barely stopped being monkeys." – Duncan Trussell

"I don't want anyone having access to a nuclear arsenal that worships a god that's planning on, at some random time, blasting the planet I'm living on and wiping out the majority of the people, cause he's pissed about what they did to his [...] hippie kid, 2000 years ago." – Duncan Trussell

"If the wobble's neon green… then I'm not sure what will hap-peen" – 'The Midnight Gospel'

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"There's no way to stop a heartbreak. How do you do that? You cry." – The Midnight Gospel

Duncan Trussell's quote: "That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

"Your name is CLANCY. You're a SPACECASTER living on the CHROMATIC RIBBON. You like to enter your USED UNIVERSE SIMULATOR to INTERVIEW the denizen of its many DYING WORLDS." – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be." – Duncan Trussell

"I hope the magicians that do tricks for zoo monkeys know that the monkeys usually go insane..." – Duncan Trussell

"When you're depressed it's like those people up on the top of Everest who don't have enough oxygen. Just basic stuff like zipping up your jacket is like doing f*cking squats!" – Duncan Trussell

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"That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok." – Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell's quote: "Tesla was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone, in love with a pigeon." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Duncan Trussell's quote: "Tesla was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone, in love with a pigeon." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

"David Lynch was a big influence in how when you watch Twin Peaks or many of his films, one of the things I love is that he empowers the viewer to make their own decision about what's happening. It just starts in a world you don't know too much about, and he's so good at using that to amplify the mystery, but also the feeling that you're smart enough to figure this out. I love that." – Duncan Trussell

"Tesla was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone, in love with a pigeon." – Duncan Trussell

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"Through love, all pain will turn to medicine. And Jesus says, "Everything I can do, you can do." You know? [...] And that... You're just in a process. It's contraction and release and breath and peace, and, "Oh, no, here, it's back!" It's okay. Remember the last one? You contract and you constrict and then you release... and you breathe. And it's what heaven will be like."" – 'The Midnight Gospel'

"If there's too much plot happening in animation and people are too focused on what's around the corner, they start feeling like their brain is being ripped in half. You don't know what to pay attention to." – Duncan Trussell

"Glasses man: What's interesting to me... I'm clarifying out sort of back-and-forth, too, because I... You know, I love being around people that help me see the world through new glasses. You're on of those.

Clancy: Thank you!

Glasses man: And so I'm open to all the stuff you say, and I think it's fascinating. Then I go, "But you could hurt somebody!" You notice that? I'm always like, "What if?"" – 'The Midnight Gospel'"Thought prisons are the best prisons to get into, because you have the key and you can get out." – Duncan Trussell

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Quote from "The Midnight Gospel": "Your life that you thought was real was just a dream." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Quote from "The Midnight Gospel": "Your life that you thought was real was just a dream." | Source: youtube.com/Netflix

Through its narration about life, "The Midnight Gospel" educates its viewers more about love, optimism, and gratitude while simultaneously emphasizing the harsh realities of life. One episode has a conversation with a knight about the significance of forgiveness in human existence. At the same time, another features a conversation with a cancer survivor and psychologist.

If one is keen on exploring more about human existence and what life is about, "The Midnight Gospel" is just the perfect show. While the first episode itself provides an overview of the trippy animated series, the remaining episodes are must-sees.

The different episodes deal with various aspects, obstacles, and everything about life in general. While it breaks your heart, it also makes you giggle at times. In conclusion, "The Midnight Gospel" has your back, whether you're happy or sad. Read about another interesting series in Arizona Robbins quotes.

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