Sarah McLachlan Quotes

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

My goal is just to inspire. To tell people that's going through the same thing that I went through, that there's somebody out there that knows… that can relate.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

I use my experience to comfort and support others for whom life has no hope.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

I've had people call me and tell me, 'You've given me courage.' It's fantastic... it's heart-warming to know you can be a ray of hope in somebody's life.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.