Conor Oberst: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I tried to pass for nothing
But my dreams gave me away”

Conor Oberst

If The Brakeman turns my way
Cassadaga (2007)

Dreams

“And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors.”

Conor Oberst

Arienette
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Sadness

“Cause a costume can be comfortable
It can make you feel more beautiful
It can even make you look like someone else
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.”

Conor Oberst

We Are Free Men
There Is No Beginning to the Story (2003)

Beauty , Feeling

“I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,
before he'd ever learned how to talk.
And I don't know what his name was
but my mother does,
I heard her say it once, she said,
"Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:
you cried but no-one came."”

Conor Oberst

Padraic My Prince
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Learning

“In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed,
why'd you lock them in a drawer?
Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Love , Women , Thinking , Clothes

“So you say there are spaces, opening wide?
Oh believe me, there's day longer than nights.
And you could be happy, if only you'd try.
But you don't try. No you don't try.”

Conor Oberst

Insound Tour Support No.12 (2000)

Night , Happiness

“For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.
Will you ever feel ok?”

Conor Oberst

Sunrise, Sunset
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Feeling

“I find that life is easier when it is just a blur
With no details to confuse who or what or where I was
So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure”

Conor Oberst

The Difference In The Shades
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)

Life

“Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Tear , Sleep , Cry

“And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.”

Conor Oberst

Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)

Pleasure , Sadness , Singing

“I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ, you will get right up from that chalk outline. And then you'll get dolled up, and you'll dress in white all to take your place in his chorus line. And then in you'll come with those marching drums in a saintly compromise. No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde-haired girls for your whole eternal life. And you'll do the dance that was choreographed at the very dawn of time. Singing "I told you son, the day would come you would die, you'd die you'd die you'd die you'd die."”

Conor Oberst

Arc Of Time
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Life , Girl , Singing , Time

“Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground.”

Conor Oberst

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

Dreams

“The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.”

Conor Oberst

The Big Picture
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Boy , Water , Time

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook
Because my hand thinks I'm an artist
But my heart knows I'm a poet
It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Conor Oberst

Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Thinking , Heart , Drawing

“If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight
Let me go on.”

Conor Oberst

Falling Out Of Love At This Volume
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

“My Brother went to college
To become a doctor
And if he studies hard enough
He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.”

Conor Oberst

Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Life , Hate , Study

“I’ve seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Sadness , Tree , Grass , Time

“I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery.
Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean,
I really think you like me.”

Conor Oberst

First Day of my Life
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Thinking , Time , Waiting

“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 phrase
if you love something give it away”

Conor Oberst

landlocked blues
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Love , Books , History , Drink

“My head's a carousel of pictures and
The spinning never stops.”

Conor Oberst

Nothing Gets Crossed Out
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)