Top 100 Charlotte Eriksson Quotes (2023 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’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

6. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

8. “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

9. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

11. “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

12. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

14. “Imagine a future where you hold no grudges towards anyone. You’re not angry at past lovers, not bitter about failures, not disappointed in your parents. You forgive, send love and move on. You’re free.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

15. “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

16. “Inspiration is everywhere.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

17. “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

18. “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

19. “The sky is busy tonight. I wonder who’s under it more than me?”

— Charlotte Eriksson

20. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

21. “The heat finally left space for breathing and crisp air. The trees undressed and coloured the streets and I found myself changing with the season. I so badly wanted to be that force of nature, that fire no one can touch, but I was tired. Tired, tired, tired, of being me and if I had one inch of energy to be something beautiful, I would have, but all I could care about was to make it home before it got dark.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

22. “This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

24. “Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don’t look like they all told me I had to do, but I’m healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

25. “I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

26. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

28. “Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

29. “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

30. “Being a person who pushes himself to his or her own limits in order to become as great as he or she can possibly be means being a person who is constantly faced with some kind of fear. May it be mental or physical, may you be an athlete or a writer, YOU are facing fear, every single day, by doing something your mind or body never did before. But by overcoming that fear you take one step higher on the ladder, and the goal is to take those steps every single day.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

31. “This is a story about love and how not to love and sometimes exactly how to love, but mostly how to love something other than your love for another person because in the end you have to save yourself. And when the love is gone you must have love left for your own life. You must place that love in something more solid than a fleeting person, because when it’s gone you have to have love left for life.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

32. “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

33. “You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

35. “You will find yourself wanting to leave and go home at the same time, and there is nothing you can do about this.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

36. “I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

37. “Loneliness is dependent on not loving very many things or people so you should try to love as many things and people as you possibly can because the loneliness can’t survive when there is too much love around.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

39. “You need to know that lovely places exist and you can go there, when things go wrong, and it’s a place of solace.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

40. “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

41. “There are things that will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about this. Isn’t it exciting beyond belief?”

— Charlotte Eriksson

42. “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

43. “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

44. “I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

45. “Get your heart real good broken and you’ll be a poet for the rest of you life.”

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

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47. “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

48. “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

49. “If you can’t do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson