Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

— Bob Dylan

52. “People don’t live or die, people just float.”

— Bob Dylan

53. “All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”

— Bob Dylan

54. “May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

— Bob Dylan

55. “It’s not dark yet But it’s getting there.”

— Bob Dylan

56. “There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

— Bob Dylan

57. “The naked truth is still taboo.”

— Bob Dylan

58. “Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin’.”

— Bob Dylan

59. “Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”

— Bob Dylan

60. “The future for me is already a thing of the past – You were my first love and you will be my last.”

— Bob Dylan

61. “What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.”

— Bob Dylan

62. “Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

— Bob Dylan

63. “Ain’t no use jiving, ain’t no use joking, everything is broken.”

— Bob Dylan

64. “Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.”

— Bob Dylan

65. “It’s like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it’s as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it’s the only one I’ve got.”

— Bob Dylan

66. “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”

— Bob Dylan

67. “Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”

— Bob Dylan

68. “Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?”

— Bob Dylan

69. “How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”

— Bob Dylan

70. “I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now. From the back pages.”

— Bob Dylan

71. “Never make it perfect.”

— Bob Dylan

72. “The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

73. “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”

— Bob Dylan

74. “The walls of pride are high and wide, can’t see over to the other side.”

— Bob Dylan

75. “There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I’m one.”

— Bob Dylan

76. “People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

— Bob Dylan

77. “Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it’s always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.”

— Bob Dylan

78. “All I’ve got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.”

— Bob Dylan

79. “This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”

— Bob Dylan

80. “I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.”

— Bob Dylan

81. “Don’t get up gentlemen. I’m only passing through!”

— Bob Dylan

82. “Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I’ve got to travel on.”

— Bob Dylan

83. “Whatever colors you have in your mind, I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine.”

— Bob Dylan

84. “Draft beer, not people.”

— Bob Dylan

85. “Well, you always know who you are. I just don’t know who I’m gonna become.”

— Bob Dylan

86. “How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”

— Bob Dylan

87. “Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.”

— Bob Dylan

88. “You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.”

— Bob Dylan

89. “Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I’m on the road and it looks like I’m here to stay.”

— Bob Dylan

90. “The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.”

— Bob Dylan

91. “Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”

— Bob Dylan

92. “Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

— Bob Dylan

93. “God, I’m glad I’m not me.”

— Bob Dylan

94. “Everything that I’m saying You can say it just as good.”

— Bob Dylan

95. “All the money you made will never buy back your soul.”

— Bob Dylan

96. “You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone. Because the Time’s they are a-changing.”

— Bob Dylan

97. “Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul.”

— Bob Dylan

98. “You’re better than no one and no one is better than you.”

— Bob Dylan

99. “She knows there’s no success like failure, and that failure’s no success at all.”

— Bob Dylan

100. “I’ll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.”

— Bob Dylan