Quotes by Conor Oberst

“No lies, just love.”

“So when your (new) eyes meet mine they wont see no lies, just love...”

“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.”

“Were all too busy working, entertaining ourselvesforty hours television and prescription pillswell I take two a day to make my brain behaveIt never does but whos to say at least my doctor gets paid.”

“Well, winters gonna endIm gonna clean these veins againSo close to dying that I finally can start living”

“From that job that makes you sleepback to the thoughts that keep you awake...”

“How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and be loved. Lets just hope that is enough.”

“Ill start drinking like the way I drank before. And I just wont have a future anymore.”

“I’m happy just because I found out I am really no one.”

“You write such pretty words, But lifes no storybook. Loves an excuse to get hurt. And to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do. Then hurt me, Then hurt me, Then hurt me...”

“Its not what you know, but what youre thinking half the time”

“All eyes on the calendar, another year I claim of total indifference.”

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

“Thats ri-god-damn-diculous”

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

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

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

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My moms the only reason I know its a real thing.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone whos a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what Im hoping that people get out of my music.

Art is essentially communication. It doesnt exist in a vacuum. Thats why people make art, so other people can relate to it.