Bob Marley
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ― Bob Marley
Category: Singer‑Songwriter
Townes Van Zandt
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor. — Townes Van Zandt, from the documentary Be Here To Love Me (Palm Pictures, 2005)
Jason Molina
… here comes midnight with a dead moon in its jaw … — Jason Molina, from “Farewell Transmission,” The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)
Jay Farrar
When you find what matters is what you feelIt arrives, and it disappears — Jay Farrar, song lyric from “Ten Second News,” Trace LP by Son Volt (Warner Bros., 1995)
Tom Waits
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. ― Tom Waits
Leonard Cohen
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty. — Leonard Cohen
Jack White
I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off into the woods and forget to come back. — Jack White
Lana Del Rey
There’s a hole that’s in my heart all my women try and healThey’re doin’ a good job convincin’ me that it’s not realIt’s heat lightningOh, oh‘Cause there’s a man that’s in my past, there’s a man that’s still right hereHe’s real enough to touch and in my darkest nightsHe’s shinin’ — Elizabeth Grant and Gabriel… Continue reading Lana Del Rey
Michael Xavier
I guess what it all comes down to is how much are you willing to risk with this one finite lifetime for the love that you secretly desire. — Michael Xavier
Ryūtarō Arimura
I’m a lonely person. But that’s okay because I’ve gotten used to things like loneliness. — Ryūtarō Arimura, from “Sabishinbou/Lonely Person,” Ammonite (April 3, 2011)
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