Top 100 Charlotte Eriksson Quotes (2024 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. “Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.”

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

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6. “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

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

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

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

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10. “Inspiration is everywhere.”

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

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12. “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.”

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

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14. “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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15. “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.”

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

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17. “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

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

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

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

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21. “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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22. “Berlin’s getting dark before it’s getting late.”

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23. “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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24. “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

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

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26. “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.”

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27. “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!”

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28. “Love. I will choose love. And I’m scared and shy, of everyone and everything, to make a fool of myself; to be laughed at; to not be what people would like me to be. But I will choose love because that’s the sort of person I want to be.”

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

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30. “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.”

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31. “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

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

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34. “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.”

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

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36. “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.”

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

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38. “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

39. “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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40. “I never really found a way to fit in or stand out and I lost myself in the crowd and people’s expectations.”

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41. “The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?”

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

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43. “I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.”

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44. “No more blurry memories of nights with strangers but still alone... I’d had enough of homeless travelling just to feed my art and I wanted stability and comfort; a calm sense of existence. I wanted a friend, a hand to hold, arms to fall asleep in.”

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45. “I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn’t get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away.”

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46. “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.”

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

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48. “You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.”

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

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50. “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