Conor Oberst Quotes

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.