Top 90 Sarah McLachlan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.”

— Sarah McLachlan

2. “You’re in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.”

— Sarah McLachlan

3. “Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.”

— Sarah McLachlan

4. “I’m so tired, but I can’t sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.”

— Sarah McLachlan

5. “The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.”

— Sarah McLachlan

6. “Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I’ve tried.”

— Sarah McLachlan

7. “People’s ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can’t help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.”

— Sarah McLachlan

8. “We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.”

— Sarah McLachlan

9. “I’m so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn’t let me chose.”

— Sarah McLachlan

10. “Don’t let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.”

— Sarah McLachlan

11. “It’s easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.”

— Sarah McLachlan

12. “My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I’d do anything for you, and my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.”

— Sarah McLachlan

13. “You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.”

— Sarah McLachlan

14. “I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you’re going through to realize that you’re not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it’s not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.”

— Sarah McLachlan

15. “The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.”

— Sarah McLachlan

16. “I don’t follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb – being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.”

— Sarah McLachlan

17. “Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.”

— Sarah McLachlan

18. “And it’s hard at the end of the day.”

— Sarah McLachlan

19. “If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.”

— Sarah McLachlan

20. “Every time I’m close to you, there’s too much I can’t say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.”

— Sarah McLachlan

21. “You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.”

— Sarah McLachlan

22. “I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.”

— Sarah McLachlan

23. “I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.”

— Sarah McLachlan

24. “You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?”

— Sarah McLachlan

25. “Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.”

— Sarah McLachlan

26. “I’ve got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it’s right for me.”

— Sarah McLachlan

27. “If you only try to please others, you’re going to resent those people you’re trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you’re going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”

— Sarah McLachlan

28. “I play piano every day.”

— Sarah McLachlan

29. “We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.”

— Sarah McLachlan

30. “Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.”

— Sarah McLachlan

31. “Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”

— Sarah McLachlan

32. “Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light.”

— Sarah McLachlan

33. “I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.”

— Sarah McLachlan

34. “I will be the answer at the end of the line. I will be there for you. Why take the time? In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground. I, I will hold the balance if you can’t look down. If it takes my whole life, I won’t break. I won’t bend. It will all be worth it, worth it in the end because I can only tell you what I know, that I need you in my life. When the stars have all gone out you’ll still be burning so bright.”

— Sarah McLachlan

35. “You’ve been gone so long from all that you know. It’s been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.”

— Sarah McLachlan

36. “I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.”

— Sarah McLachlan

37. “Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.”

— Sarah McLachlan

38. “Everybody loves you when you’re easy, so don’t disappoint them.”

— Sarah McLachlan

39. “I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me...”

— Sarah McLachlan

40. “Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics – they’re a lot more tangible. They’re much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.”

— Sarah McLachlan

41. “Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I’ve denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight.”

— Sarah McLachlan

42. “Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.”

— Sarah McLachlan

43. “If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”

— Sarah McLachlan

44. “Time is a beautiful thing. It’s like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don’t look so ugly anymore.”

— Sarah McLachlan

45. “When I say music saved me, I don’t say that lightly.”

— Sarah McLachlan

46. “Deep within I’m shaken by the violence of existing for only you...”

— Sarah McLachlan

47. “I don’t tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.”

— Sarah McLachlan

48. “All the fear has left me now, I’m not frightened anymore. It’s my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it’s my mouth that pushes out this breath.”

— Sarah McLachlan

49. “I’m not one to sit and wallow – I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don’t like bad feelings gnawing away at me.”

— Sarah McLachlan

50. “Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.”

— Sarah McLachlan