15+ Best Dan Howell Quotes From The Beloved British YouTuber

Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Dec 12, 2023 By Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Originally Published on Mar 12, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
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Daniel James Howell was born in 1991 in Wokingham, Berkshire, and gained stardom through social media, specifically YouTube.

Dan Howell is mainly known for his YouTube channel and as a video blogger. He has also attracted fans with his funny and super cute collaborations with his best friend, Phil Lester.

Dan Howell has grown as an English video blogger and also hosted a radio show called 'BBC Radio 1's Request Show'. Dan Howell and Phil Lester are amongst the most adored content creators duo, and they even live together.

They even wrote a book called 'The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire', released in 2015, which became #1 New York Times Bestseller. Dan Howell and Phil Lester have lived together since 2011, they share a pet fish too, and there's no evidence to suggest that they aren't cohabiting anymore.

They also did a theatrical stage with the same name, which toured in the UK, later in the US, Toronto, and ended in Australia and Europe. It later became a YouTube Red Originals, with an additional documentary, and this made them the first British content creator to be released by YouTube Red Originals.

Dan Howell has also suffered from clinical depression, so his journey wasn't that easy. To find and grasp some inspiration, we have curated a list of quotes by this extraordinary social media personality.

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Dan Howell Inspirational Quotes

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Dan Howell has aced many social media platforms, video blogs, and many other videos on YouTube. Here are some quotes by Dan Howell which are somewhat inspiring and funny.

1. "Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault."

- Dan Howell.

2. "You'll be shocked by the amount of times I've pretended to not speak English just to avoid talking to people."

- Dan Howell.

3. "To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure you're happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory."

- Dan Howell.

4. "If a serial killer broke my bedroom then I could just swan dive out of the window into a taxi."

- Dan Howell.

5. "Even if you can't change the world, you can change individuals."

- Dan Howell.

6. "Sometimes, if you intensely dislike someone due to something, you just have to take comfort in the fact that one day, they will be dead."

- Dan Howell.

7. "And the other half of it is me kind of like articulating my own profound observations on the universe, which is really just an excuse to give myself a therapy."

- Dan Howell.

8. "And think, Wow, I'm scared of going to my first day of work, but there is a guy called Dan who actually sold an ax to a child."

- Dan Howell.

9. "The only ugly girls are the ones that don't realize that beauty comes from within."

- Dan Howell.

10. "Embrace the void, and have the courage to exist."

- Dan Howell.

11. "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."

-Dan Howell.

12. "My only regrets are the moments when I doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy."

- Dan Howell.

13. "I'm holding you back from achieving things in your life by forcing you to sit here and watch this."

- Dan Howell.

14. "To entertain you with stories of my life so, you know, you can find them entertaining. But then maybe compare them to your own lives and not feel so alone with the issues that you go with, go through. "

-Dan Howell.

15. "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."

-Dan Howell.

Dan Howell And Phil Lester Quotes

Here are some quotes by Phil Lester and Dan Howell, who are both video vloggers and the best content creators pair anyone ever came across. Check out these great quotes below.

16. "You are a human with one life and it's up to you to make it the best life you can."

- Dan Howell and Phil Lester, 'The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire'.

17. "Dan: Do you remember how you felt seeing the set for the first time?

Phil: Honestly, I think I just stared, with my mouth open, for ten minutes, not believing that we were responsible for something so awesome-looking."

- Phil Lester and Dan Howell, 'Go Outside'.

18. "I think it just says a lot about our chemistry!"

- Phil Lester and Dan Howell.

19. "A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist. "

- Phil Lester and Dan Howell, 'The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire'.

20. "You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of."

- Dan Howell and Phil Lester, 'The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire'.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Dan Howell quotes, then why not take a look at Bo Burnham quotes, or Internet quotes.

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Written by Rajnandini Roychoudhury

Bachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

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Rajnandini RoychoudhuryBachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

With a Master of Arts in English, Rajnandini has pursued her passion for the arts and has become an experienced content writer. She has worked with companies such as Writer's Zone and has had her writing skills recognized by publications such as The Telegraph. Rajnandini is also trilingual and enjoys various hobbies such as music, movies, travel, philanthropy, writing her blog, and reading classic British literature. 

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