Top 100 Charlotte Eriksson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

52. “I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

54. “Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “This morning I woke up before the alarm clock went off and the sky outside was a big red ocean. You’re beautiful when you’re sleeping so I spent an hour observing the way you breathe. Inhale, exhale, without a thought of tomorrow. The window was open and the air was so crisp and I couldn’t imagine how to ever ask for more than this.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

63. “Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere – anywhere.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

64. “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?”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

66. “I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds of colors but way too soon I stood on his table sad and dried up. I forgot to nourish myself and the sun never shone from my sky.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

67. “So find your own combination of things to learn and see and be passionate about. Learn from everyone but be your own guidance, and you will find a red-hot feeling in your chest each night, eager for the possibilities of a new day. No one knows your heart as well as you do.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

68. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

69. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

70. “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.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

71. “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

72. “I wonder about everyone I meet and everyone I’ve ever met and I wonder how they are, what they’re doing, if they’re happy, if they’re with someone. I hope they are. I hope they’re all happy. I hope they’re all with someone.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

73. “It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!”

— Charlotte Eriksson

74. “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

75. “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

76. “I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It’s work and it’s money and I’ve written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn’t be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

77. “This is a book about how it really is possible to grow through heartbreak. Enter like a child and exit like an adult. Really, truly feeling it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

78. “I turned myself into an artist because then my life would be about creating meaning out of ugliness and that would be my life, and it was noble. It was the beginning of a journey, the creating of the world every single day and I was not bored. I was ecstasy and creation and nothingness turned into melodies and I was dancing with the spirits.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

79. “A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me – but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

80. “Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

81. “There is no wrong way for reality to play out.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

82. “Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

83. “I didn’t love my life but now I do. I’m sure I will fall out of love with it again at some point but I’m confident I will go to therapy and work it out and fall back in love with it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

84. “I’m fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

85. “I spent my youth like this, observing other people. Trying to learn how to live and trying to figure out how to be someone. But I never really found a way to fit in or stand out and I lost myself in the crowd and people’s expectations.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

86. “It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

87. “When you forget about the how, go back to the why.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

88. “Loneliness is dependent on not loving very many things. So now I try to love a lot.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

89. “Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

90. “You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

91. “I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

92. “It’s hard to make people care again once you’ve taught them not to. It’s hard to tell people that you need them, once you’ve told them you don’t.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

93. “I was born for the ocean, for the road, and I longed to build my reputation as a fearless nomad, forever roaming the country with a suitcase and my guitar. Light as the wind itself, a romantic mystery passing through people’s lives, leaving them with moments of magic, wondering where I might be now.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

99. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson