Top 280 Tori Amos Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.”

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2. “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”

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3. “If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.”

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4. “Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”

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5. “I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.”

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6. “Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.”

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7. “I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.”

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8. “To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.”

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9. “Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.”

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10. “On some of my darkest days, Lucifer’s the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.”

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11. “I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.”

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12. “You’re just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.”

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13. “People think I’m nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.”

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14. “Get off the cross, we need the wood.”

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15. “Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.”

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16. “I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.”

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17. “I’ve got enough guilt to start my own religion.”

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18. “Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon.”

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19. “Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.”

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20. “The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.”

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21. “When soulmates come and go, you’re never alone, even when you’re standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.”

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22. “In my new life, no room for a lost boy.”

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23. “Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”

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24. “Though I can’t change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don’t want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.”

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25. “I think that people who can’t believe in faeries aren’t worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”

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26. “Boys are cute, but food is cuter.”

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27. “You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.”

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28. “These precious things, let them bleed.”

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29. “We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.”

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30. “The only way out is to go so far in...”

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31. “You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.”

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32. “My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’”

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33. “Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.”

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34. “She’s been everybody else’s girl, maybe one day she’ll be her own.”

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35. “I’m trying not to move, it’s just your ghost passing through.”

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36. “Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.”

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37. “I think there are pieces of me you’ve never seen.”

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38. “I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.”

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39. “Have a seat, while I take to the sky.”

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40. “Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”

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41. “I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he’d see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.”

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42. “I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.”

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43. “Confucius does his crossword with a pen.”

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44. “I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.”

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45. “Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating.”

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46. “Men have periods too, they just don’t bleed.”

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47. “Sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been here, silent all these years.”

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48. “Pretty is never beautiful.”

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49. “Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”

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50. “Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.”

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