Conor Oberst Quotes

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Good and evil lay side by side.

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.