Jens Lekman Quotes

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

All things change, nothing perishes.

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

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings