Conor Oberst quotes

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. (Conor Oberst)
we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away. View quote
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I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling. View quote
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Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me. View quote
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If I loved you, well that's my fault. View quote
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You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops. View quote
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The world's become a little too mean. View quote
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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. View quote
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Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here. View quote
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If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake. View quote
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried. View quote
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Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet. View quote
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We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid. View quote
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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact. View quote
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It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living. (Conor Oberst)
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok? View quote
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I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone. View quote
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And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid. View quote
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault... View quote
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Conor Oberst

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Photo: Moses, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: February 15, 1980
Quotes count: 177
Wikipedia: Conor Oberst

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