Conor Oberst Quotes (31 Quotes)

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.

So when your (new) eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

I keep drinking the ink from my pen, and I'm balancing history books up on my head, but it all boils down to one quotable frase if you love something, give it away

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselvesforty hours television and prescription pillswell I take two a day to make my brain behaveIt never does but who's to say at least my doctor gets paid.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

No lies, just love.

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him

But these are days we dream about, when the sunlight paints us goldAnd this apartment could not be prettier as we danced up there alone

And it all boils down to one quotable phrase... If you love something, give it away.

When I was a kid, I used to fantasize about death. Not that I was suicidal, but there was an attraction there. I went from 'I don't care what happens' to 'everything is terrifying.'

I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers And laid entwined together in a bed of clover Left there to sleep Left there to dream of happiness.

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

And we will share a drink. Yeah we will share our fears and they will know how I love them.They will know how I love. They will know how I love them.I am nothing without their love.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

Last few months I've been living with this couple,yeah, you know the kind who buy everything in doubles,I love their love and I am thankful,that someone has actually recieved the prize that was promised,by all those fairy tales that drugged us,but still to me I'm sick lonely, no laurel tree, just green envywill my number come up eventually, like love's some kind of lotterywhere you scratch and see what's underneathIts' sorry, just one cherry, I'll play againget lucky.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

It's not what you know, but what you're thinking half the time

How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.