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Charlotte Eriksson Quotes | Quotes said by Charlotte Eriksson

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #1

    ... and I realise the only way to tell the others
    is through the way my voice can take these broken words
    and turn it into music.
    Turn it into poetry.
    And I sing to make myself come alive,
    but also for you,
    because I’d like this to mean something.
    To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day
    and so now I will tell.
    If not for you, then for my own heart,
    because it tells me to,
    and I'm learning to listen.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #2

    ... and it was quite a sad thing,
    the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how could I not
    when everything I’ve ever known has slowly gone away
    and I know by now that that’s the way you let the new day in
    with new roads and views and chances to grow
    but it was quite a sad thing
    because I don’t want this to ever become ’then’ or ’was’
    and it was quite an unfamiliar thing. The way I took off my shoes again, put down my bag and quietly went back to bed, slowly between the sheets of moments I don’t want to leave
    and it was quite a beautiful thing the way you had no idea but still must have known because you did not even open your eyes, but turned around and took my hand and you were still asleep, breathing in and out like nothing could go wrong, but still held my hand like you were glad I didn’t leave. ’Thank you for staying’
    and it was quite a wonderful thing, the way I smiled and so did you, sound asleep, and that’s all I need to know for now.
    That’s all I want to know for now.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #3

    ... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”
    and I will say
    “watch me”
    for I never did this to fit in
    or stand out
    but to live.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #4

    ... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was not
    alone
    and that’s how it starts.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #5

    ... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #6

    ... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’s smell can make you feel at home even though you’re a million miles away from
    home
    and have you ever hurt someone you love? Because you’re angry. Because you’re disappointed and sad and you just really wanted to love and be loved in return
    but life got in the way and you both said things that should never be said and you’re angry but don’t know how to. Because you still feel this strange love for him, but you’re also fucking angry and you want to hit him, but then hug him because hurting him is hurting yourself, and then hit him again because you’re angry! and so you fall on your knees because you’re hopeless to yourself and your own emotions
    and that’s love, my friend.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #7

    ... so this is for us.
    This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
    and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know
    because the beauty is in the act of doing it.
    Not what it can lead to.
    This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playing
    and no one is around and they will never know
    but I will forever remember
    and that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,
    and this is for you who write or play or read or sing
    by yourself with the light off and door closed
    when the world is asleep and the stars are aligned
    and maybe no one will ever hear it
    or read your words
    or know your thoughts
    but it doesn’t make it less glorious.
    It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.
    Infinite.
    For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe in
    and only you can decide how much it meant
    and means
    and will forever mean
    and other people will experience it too
    through you.
    Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.
    Through the way you walk and love and laugh and care
    and I never meant to write this long
    but what I want to say is:
    Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
    and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
    Let your very identity be your book.
    Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

    So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountain
    where no one will ever hear
    and your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.
    Make your life be your art
    and you will never be forgotten.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #8

    … and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
    because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
    and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #9

    6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
    and I still don’t know which month it was then
    or what day it is now.
    Blurred out lines
    from hangovers
    to coffee
    another vagabond
    lost to love.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #10

    6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
    and I still don’t know which month it was then
    or what day it is now.
    Blurred out lines
    from hangovers
    to coffee
    Another vagabond
    lost to love.

    4am alone and on my way.
    These are my finest moments.
    I scrub my skin
    to rid me from
    you
    and I still don’t know why I cried.
    It was just something in the way you took my heart and rearranged my insides and I couldn’t recognise the emptiness you left me with when you were done. Maybe you thought my insides would fit better this way, look better this way, to you and us and all the rest.
    But then you must have changed your mind
    or made a wrong
    because why did you
    leave?

    6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
    and I still don’t know which month it was then
    or what day it is now.
    I replace cafés with crowded bars and empty roads with broken bottles
    and this town is healing me slowly but still not slow or fast enough because there’s no right way to do this.
    There is no right way to do this.

    There is no right way to do this.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #11

    All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #12

    All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #13

    Am I making something worth while?
    I’m not sure.
    I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,
    but am I making something worth while?
    I’m not sure.

    There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn’t find anything lightly to say,
    so I simply walked away
    but still wondered what he did with his life
    because he didn’t even speak to me
    or look at me
    but still made me wonder who he was
    and I walked away asking
    Am I making something worth while?
    I am not sure.

    I am a complicated person with a simple life
    and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #14

    An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ? go mad for what you believe in.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #15

    And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music
    leaving tears on the glass,
    which is what music does to me
    most of the time
    but silence too. and rain.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #16

    And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #17

    And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love,
    but you must not grow up, must not act wise
    when it comes to love.
    You must stay foolish and fall
    for every heart will beat in different ways together with yours and love is not meant to be compared, only enjoyed, and suffered, and remembered.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #18

    Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #19

    Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #20

    Berlin's getting dark before it's getting late.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #21

    But I was young
    and didn’t know better
    and someone should have told me to capture every second
    every kiss & every night
    Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people
    watching
    and I just want to be somewhere silent
    somewhere still
    But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely
    and I don’t understand
    Because I was alone my whole life
    My whole life
    I was so damn lonely and I was content with that
    because I liked myself and my own company
    and I didn’t need anyone
    I thought
    But then there was you .. ...

    So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,
    the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,
    Because I lost myself to someone I love
    and I might get myself back one day
    but it will take time, it will take time.

    This is gonna take some time.

    I wish someone would have told me this.
    Someone should have told me this.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #22

    Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #23

    Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #24

    Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #25

    Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
    and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
    Let your very identity be your book.
    Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #26

    Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.
    It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #27

    Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #28

    For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take care of my health or the reassurance that I can pay my rent. And I have no right to complain because this is the road I choose and I built it myself, not really knowing where I wanted it to lead, but I have hope in all things ahead and behind and I am learning to let myself go. Forget my own ego and believe that what I am doing is grander than my very own self.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #29

    Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

  • Charlotte Eriksson Quote #30

    Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
    There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.

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