Top 30 Lorde Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.”

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2. “Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”

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3. “It’s a new art form, showing people how little we care.”

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4. “Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that’s left is our Wikipedia entry.”

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5. “Glory and gore go hand in hand.”

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6. “Everyone’s competing for a love they won’t receive.”

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7. “We’re bigger than we ever dreamed, and I’m in love with being queen.”

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8. “I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.”

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9. “The smarter the person, the more boring the Instagram account.”

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10. “I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.”

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11. “Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.”

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12. “I find this curious – two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.”

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13. “With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that’s made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.”

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14. “Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.”

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15. “The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.”

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16. “Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don’t think it’s breeding anything good in young girls.”

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17. “The phrase ‘teen hottie’ literally makes me want to throw up. I’m a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn’t about making things easy. It’s a weird juxtaposition.”

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18. “I’ll let you in on something big: I’m not a white-teeth teen.”

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19. “I knew that teenagers sparkled. I knew they knew something children didn’t know, and adults ended up forgetting.”

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20. “David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.”

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21. “What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding, high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.”

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22. “I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.”

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23. “People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.”

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24. “Don’t let some random comment that you wouldn’t have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.”

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25. “I think I’m speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn’t even be something that people find mildly surprising. It’s just a part of being a girl in 2013.”

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26. “I know when I’m onstage, I don’t think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it’s cool.”

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27. “We might be hollow, but we’re brave.”

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28. “I don’t get why people say the sky’s the limit when we have footprints on the moon.”

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29. “Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.”

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30. “We gladiate, but I guess we’re really fighting ourselves.”

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31. “We’re so happy, even when we’re smiling out of fear.”

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