Bob Dylan Quotes

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

I felt like things could never get any worse.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.