Top 500 Taylor Swift Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.”

— Taylor Swift

252. “Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won’t change. To me, giving up isn’t being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.”

— Taylor Swift

253. “Once a relationship is done, it’s done. You can’t do that back and forth thing.”

— Taylor Swift

254. “Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.”

— Taylor Swift

255. “Sparks Fly whenever you smile!”

— Taylor Swift

256. “I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‘Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.’”

— Taylor Swift

257. “I’m a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, ’cause I remember it all too well.”

— Taylor Swift

258. “It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.”

— Taylor Swift

259. “People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.”

— Taylor Swift

260. “I’ve gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.”

— Taylor Swift

261. “I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.”

— Taylor Swift

262. “With you I’d dance in the rain in my best dress, fearless.”

— Taylor Swift

263. “All of my songs are autobiographical.”

— Taylor Swift

264. “Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn’t speak up, say I love you, or say I’m sorry.”

— Taylor Swift

265. “The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.”

— Taylor Swift

266. “I like things that make me feel seven again. I don’t ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it’s just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.”

— Taylor Swift

267. “Sometimes we don’t just have a bad day or a bad month... sometimes we have a bad year. Sometimes we feel like we have no control over the endless waves of bad luck we seem to be experiencing... But one thing you do have control over is your outlook. Your mindset is yours to control, and as hard as it is to step back from the situation and have blind faith that things will change and get better, it’s our only option.”

— Taylor Swift

268. “I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.”

— Taylor Swift

269. “The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”

— Taylor Swift

270. “And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.”

— Taylor Swift

271. “But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.”

— Taylor Swift

272. “Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.”

— Taylor Swift

273. “I’m not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”

— Taylor Swift

274. “I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.”

— Taylor Swift

275. “Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life – we were just trying to make it to next week.”

— Taylor Swift

276. “Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it’s just basically another word for equality.”

— Taylor Swift

277. “You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.”

— Taylor Swift

278. “I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans.”

— Taylor Swift

279. “My imagination is a twisted place.”

— Taylor Swift

280. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.”

— Taylor Swift

281. “Be friends first when you’re dating. If it turns into something more, that’s awesome, and if not you have another friend.”

— Taylor Swift

282. “There are no rules when it comes to love.”

— Taylor Swift

283. “I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard.”

— Taylor Swift

284. “It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.”

— Taylor Swift

285. “I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.”

— Taylor Swift

286. “I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.”

— Taylor Swift

287. “I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.”

— Taylor Swift

288. “My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.”

— Taylor Swift

289. “I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.”

— Taylor Swift

290. “My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.”

— Taylor Swift

291. “If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

— Taylor Swift

292. “If you have something about yourself that’s different, you’re lucky. It’s not a curse.”

— Taylor Swift

293. “I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.”

— Taylor Swift

294. “Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.”

— Taylor Swift

295. “I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.”

— Taylor Swift

296. “I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.”

— Taylor Swift

297. “I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.”

— Taylor Swift

298. “I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”

— Taylor Swift

299. “I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I’m not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I’m not – partying all the time.”

— Taylor Swift

300. “I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.”

— Taylor Swift