Top 35 Robert Hunter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right.”

— Robert Hunter

2. “Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait.”

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3. “Without love in a dream it will never come true.”

— Robert Hunter

4. “Well, the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.”

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5. “Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.”

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6. “Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.”

— Robert Hunter

7. “The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...”

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8. “Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.”

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9. “One man gathers what another man spills.”

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10. “Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.”

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11. “The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master.”

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12. “Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own.”

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13. “Don’t waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.”

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14. “It’s better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother’s ear.”

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15. “You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.”

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16. “Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you’ll find direction around some corner where it’s been waiting to meet you.”

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17. “Let there be songs to fill the air.”

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18. “Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.”

— Robert Hunter

19. “In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.”

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20. “Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.”

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21. “But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky.”

— Robert Hunter

22. “I won’t slave for beggar’s pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.”

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23. “Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.”

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24. “Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.”

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25. “Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.”

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26. “There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.”

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27. “When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you’ll never get far, I’ll tell you the reason if you want to know, ’cause child of mine, there isn’t really very far to go.”

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28. “Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there’s no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet.”

— Robert Hunter

29. “The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.”

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30. “But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart.”

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31. “Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.”

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32. “There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you’d gladly part, With what you need to live.”

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33. “At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It’s a manic-depressive cycle.”

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34. “When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.”

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35. “Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.”

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36. “I feel I’ve got 10 books in me.”

— Robert Hunter