Top 140 Mariah Carey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.”

— Mariah Carey

2. “If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.”

— Mariah Carey

3. “If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.”

— Mariah Carey

4. “You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.”

— Mariah Carey

5. “There’s a hero if you look inside your heart. You don’t have to be afraid of what you are.”

— Mariah Carey

6. “I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.”

— Mariah Carey

7. “If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.”

— Mariah Carey

8. “No stress, no fights. I’m leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.”

— Mariah Carey

9. “Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.”

— Mariah Carey

10. “All I want for Christmas is you.”

— Mariah Carey

11. “Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don’t let anyone tear them away.”

— Mariah Carey

12. “I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.”

— Mariah Carey

13. “Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.”

— Mariah Carey

14. “Them chickens is ash and I’m lotion.”

— Mariah Carey

15. “I know you’re shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we’ve lost along the way. And I know eventually we’ll be together, one sweet day.”

— Mariah Carey

16. “Everyday is a holiday with me.”

— Mariah Carey

17. “I know life can be so tough And you feel like giving up But you must be strong Baby just hold on You’ll never find the answers if you throw your life away I used to feel the way you do Still I had to keep on going.”

— Mariah Carey

18. “Cause there’s a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can’t take that away from me.”

— Mariah Carey

19. “Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don’t let ’em ever count you out.”

— Mariah Carey

20. “It’s kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don’t get on the ride, you won’t experience the adventure.”

— Mariah Carey

21. “Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You’re all I know. I can’t let go.”

— Mariah Carey

22. “Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.”

— Mariah Carey

23. “Everybody out there, don’t ever take anybody for granted, ’cause you never know when you might lose them and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.”

— Mariah Carey

24. “We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.”

— Mariah Carey

25. “It’s a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.”

— Mariah Carey

26. “I really haven’t paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular.”

— Mariah Carey

27. “I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.”

— Mariah Carey

28. “I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt.”

— Mariah Carey

29. “In the beginning of our time together I was walking on eggshells. Then it became a bed of nails, and then a minefield. I never knew when or what would make him blow, and the anxiety was relentless.”

— Mariah Carey

30. “Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.”

— Mariah Carey

31. “You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.”

— Mariah Carey

32. “You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it’s very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I’m basically a nice person and I think I’m a real person, and a lot of people aren’t.”

— Mariah Carey

33. “There’s an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.”

— Mariah Carey

34. “I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.”

— Mariah Carey

35. “In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.”

— Mariah Carey

36. “The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.”

— Mariah Carey

37. “I’m the queen of festivities, that’s all I can say.”

— Mariah Carey

38. “Time has shown me there is no benefit in trying to protect people who never tried to protect me.”

— Mariah Carey

39. “Protect your dreams.”

— Mariah Carey

40. “Apparently I don’t do stairs, I won’t walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?”

— Mariah Carey

41. “Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.”

— Mariah Carey

42. “She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.”

— Mariah Carey

43. “See, I’m looking for a man that’ll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.”

— Mariah Carey

44. “I don’t want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don’t trust most people out there. There’s too much at risk and I don’t need to be a notch on somebody’s bedpost. I’ll flirt with you all night long, but then it’s buh, bye!”

— Mariah Carey

45. “My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.”

— Mariah Carey

46. “I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.”

— Mariah Carey

47. “Sipping Bailey’s Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I’m suppressing the tears.”

— Mariah Carey

48. “And I miss you, dandelion And even love you And I wish there was a way For me to trust you But it hurts me every time I try to touch you.”

— Mariah Carey

49. “Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart.”

— Mariah Carey

50. “I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” and Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That’s why I’ve never redone them.”

— Mariah Carey