Top 200 Alanis Morissette Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.”

— Alanis Morissette

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2. “You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn.”

— Alanis Morissette

3. “It’s like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.”

— Alanis Morissette

4. “Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.”

— Alanis Morissette

5. “Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up In your face.”

— Alanis Morissette

6. “I’m sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.”

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7. “For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.”

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8. “Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you’re gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...”

— Alanis Morissette

9. “Don’t be surprised if I love you for all that you are.”

— Alanis Morissette

10. “Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.”

— Alanis Morissette

11. “We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”

— Alanis Morissette

12. “Your choice of armor was your intellect.”

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13. “Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything’s gone wrong.”

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14. “Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

— Alanis Morissette

15. “What part of our history’s reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?”

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16. “Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn’t explain.”

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17. “Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.”

— Alanis Morissette

18. “I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.”

— Alanis Morissette

19. “I’m consumed by the chill of solitary.”

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20. “Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?”

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21. “Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.”

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22. “Your political views really denote your spiritual views.”

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23. “In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.”

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24. “When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”

— Alanis Morissette

25. “The whole idea of emotions being something we can’t escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don’t feel good in the body.”

— Alanis Morissette

26. “I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.”

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27. “These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.”

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28. “I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.”

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29. “A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

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30. “I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.”

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31. “To whom do I owe the first apology? No one’s been crueler than I’ve been to me.”

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32. “Running has made being depressed impossible. If I’m going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I’ll come back with clarity.”

— Alanis Morissette

33. “How about not equating death with stopping?”

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34. “I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.”

— Alanis Morissette

35. “Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who’s a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.”

— Alanis Morissette

36. “I’m a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.”

— Alanis Morissette

37. “Let’s grease the wheel over tea, let’s discuss things in confidence. Let’s be outspoken, let’s be ridiculous, let’s solve the world’s problems.”

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38. “What’s that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.”

— Alanis Morissette

39. “Once I know who I’m not, then I’ll know who I am.”

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40. “Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.”

— Alanis Morissette

41. “First I was ‘angry,’ then ‘spiritual.’ Now I don’t know what I am.”

— Alanis Morissette

42. “I believe we’ve been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments – which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.”

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43. “We’re all ants. I’m a glittery little ant.”

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44. “I think some people think I’m a smarty-pants. Some people think I’m intense, some people think I’m super-esoteric and nuts.”

— Alanis Morissette

45. “Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don’t care how many units I sell.”

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46. “I think everyone’s hungry for the truth.”

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47. “I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.”

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48. “In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.”

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49. “With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I’m teeming with the drive to write.”

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50. “Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around.”

— Alanis Morissette