« All All Quotes · Conor Oberst's Page
All Quotes by Conor Oberst
- One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
- The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
- We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
- Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
- There's all body types, but there's just one size.
- A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
- I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
- I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
- I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
- It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens…
- One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
- We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
- Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers…
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that…
- I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing…
- I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends…
- Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to…
- There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge…
- To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate…
- With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives…
- One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care…
- The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle