Jens Lekman Quotes

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Our show is about starting over.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

We can always begin again.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.