Top 100 Charlotte Eriksson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

2. “I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

3. “I am the creator of my very own self and I intend to treat me like my greatest masterpiece.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

4. “Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

5. “Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

6. “People who truly live their lives don’t have time to complain or judge others. They’re too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!”

— Charlotte Eriksson

7. “There is beauty even in the ugliest mess, and it’s the artist’s job to find it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

8. “I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

9. “I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

10. “My favorite place in the world is next to you.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

11. “When you think your life is falling apart, it’s usually falling together in disguise.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

12. “Inspiration is everywhere.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

13. “Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.”

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14. “I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.”

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15. “You’re under no obligation to be who people think you are. Change, grow, rearrange yourself. Free and beautiful things always bloom and spark with no holding back.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

16. “I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

17. “It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

18. “Leave that room, kid. Shut the screen off. Take your dirty shoes, not the pretty ones, and go out to feel the wind. Touch water. Touch earth. Touch wood, touch skin, touch everything you can touch and memorise everything because that’s all you will live off in the end, and that’s all you will need.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

19. “You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

20. “I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

21. “He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

22. “Rejections will redirect you to more exciting roads. When you think your life is falling apart, it’s usually falling together in disguise. Your search will throw you on journeys you never would have dreamt of, in your mind and in the world.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

24. “You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.”

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25. “I’m packing my life in a bag again, saying goodbye and writing the last letters. It’s been a long journey, back and forth, hide and seek, but this time it’s different. This time I am different. I’m not sure where I want to end up but I know how to get there, or at least the first direction, the first turn, the first sunset. I’m longing for peace. I’m longing for borrowed guitars and detachment. Horizons, cheap whiskey straight from the bottle and your hands in mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

26. “You have to stop carrying life like a burden. Life is not a burden. It’s not heavy to be alive. It’s weightless. It’s light as air. You’re just floating, a leaf through space, for a little while. You just have to learn to close your eyes more, or open them, when you can. You just have to learn to float with the current more, not fight against things. Change, movement, transitions... you have to become one with the current.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

27. “Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

28. “You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

29. “No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

32. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”

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33. “I am a complicated person with a simple life.”

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34. “This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.”

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35. “I’d like to be an example of no matter how dark and thick and hopeless it feels, for years maybe, things can and will change.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

36. “I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

37. “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

38. “When someone’s success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you’ve found someone worth holding on to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

39. “I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

40. “Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

41. “I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

42. “People come and go all the time, it’s ripping me to pieces and I was in a state of simply not caring about anything or anyone other than the very thought of not giving a damn anymore. People always leave, I thought, and I did not want to be excited.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

43. “Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.”

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

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45. “5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

46. “I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

47. “Berlin’s getting dark before it’s getting late.”

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48. “When I discovered music – when I discovered the craft of shaping a song – my being fell into place.”

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49. “I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.”

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50. “I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain.”

— Charlotte Eriksson