Top 100 Charlotte Eriksson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

65. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

67. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

70. “Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

76. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

79. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

82. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

100. “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