Quotes by Conor Oberst

“Cause I swear that Im dying, slowly but its happining.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, Theres nothing that I can do for you that you cant 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 how he felt. He said, I think Im cured.”

“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”

“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.”

“Why are you scared to dream of god when its salvation that you want?”

“I like to feel the burn of the audiences eyes when Im whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone”

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

“Loves an excuse to get hurt.”

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

“I want a lover I dont have to love”

“Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me — God of love only knows where.”

“We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.”

“Theres all body types, but theres just one size.”

“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 Ive 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 Im sick lonely, no laurel tree, just green envywill my number come up eventually, like loves some kind of lotterywhere you scratch and see whats underneathIts sorry, just one cherry, Ill play againget lucky.”

“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 dont care what happens to everything is terrifying.”