Sarah McLachlan famous quotes

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Thinking #People #Important

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Thinking #Hot #Doe

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Loving Yourself #Loving You #Trying

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Confidence #Kids #Insecure

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

#Eye #Able #Harder

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.
-- Sarah McLachlan

Trying to force creativity is never good.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Art #Creativity #Trying

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Music #Song #Sadness

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Feel Better #Interesting #Trying

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Feels Right #Feels

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

#People #Trying #Want

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Letting Go #Darkness #Feels

I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Smile #Falling In Love #Believe

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Real #Love Is #Cures

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

#Beauty #Pain #Believe

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

#Stars #Balance #Needs

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

#Boyfriend #Strong #Love You

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Violence

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

#Heart #Flesh #Pounds

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Sleep #Tired #Insomnia

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

#Giving Up #Fighting #Night

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Fiction #Larger Than Life #Life Is

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Sweet #Believe #Sadness

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

#Technology #Age #Littles

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Couple #Player #Thinking

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#World #Worthwhile #Offers

Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Memories #Blow #Wind

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Hurt #Hell

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Night #Light #Darkness

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Memories #Aging

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Angel #Grieving #Arms

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me...
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Happiness #Success #Believe

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

#Love #Hurt #Light

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

#Moving #Past #Feelings

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Beautiful #Song #Opinion

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Mean #Men #Fortune

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ***** off to get out of it as soon as possible.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Being Happy #Depressing #Being Depressed

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Should

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Broken Heart #Broken Promises #Deadline

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Integrity #Challenges #Privacy

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Real #Lying #Communication

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

#Stupid #Ignorance #People

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Happiness #Clouds #Long

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

#Beautiful #Time #Years

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Writing #People #Singing

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Facts #Difficult #Term

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Real #Kids #Squares

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Spotlight #Able #Figures

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Opportunity #Play #Feminism

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Years #Luxury

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Mean #Superstar #Quiet

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Giving #Leave Me Alone #Mind

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Media #Magazines #Quiet

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Fun #Cities #Spots

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

#Young #Feels

I play piano every day.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Play #Piano

I don't think about what other people want from me.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Thinking #People #Want

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Court #Paparazzi

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Love You #Past #Low Self Esteem

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Fighting #Low Self Esteem #Shells

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#People #Needs #Done

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Ocean #Sadness #Tears

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Friendship #Angel #Surround

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Friendship #Pick Me Up #Needs

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Friendship #Night #Solitude

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Religious #Religion #Trying

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Honesty #Lows #Should

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

#Philosophy #Way #Might

Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Sex #Love You #Easy

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Kids #New Relationship #Two

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Wall #Fall #Reality

Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Struggle #Tears #Way

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Morning #Night #Expression

I'm a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They're very sweet
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Sweet #Boys #Fans

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Beautiful

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Degrees #Cynicism #Optimist

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Writing #Thinking #Very Romantic

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Crazy #Party #Chance

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Romantic #World #Made

When you wake up everyday Please don't throw your dreams away Hold them close to your heart 'Cause we are all a part of the ordinary miracle
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Dream #Heart #Miracle

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

#Names #Long #Gone

In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here...
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Angel #May #Arms

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

#Song #Thinking #Trying

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Growth #Painful #Change And Growth

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

#Relationship #Alive #Body

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Valentines Day #Valentine #Love Is

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Regret #Sadness #Rivers

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

#Love You #Unrequited Love #Too Much

So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Song #Sweet #Lying

And it's hard at the end of the day
-- Sarah McLachlan

#The End Of The Day #Ends

Nothing outside of my child is important
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Children #Important #My Children

I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude.  About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life.  I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Gratitude #Blessed #Grateful

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Block #Writing

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Water #Forgiving

The more we take, the less we become.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Wisdom

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light And I will remember you Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by Weep not for the memories
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Song #Memories #Love You

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Thinking #Live In The Moment #Trying

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.
-- Sarah McLachlan

#Life #Memories #Remember