The best Quotes by Conor Oberst

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

I'm glad I didn't die before I met you

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am, I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go

While my mother waters plants, my father loads his gun
He says, "Death will give us back to God
Just like the setting sun
Is returned to the lonesome ocean"

And there's kids playing guns in the street
And one's pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up, I say "enough is enough
If you walk away, I'll walk away"
And he shot me dead

Why are you scared to dream of God?
When it's salvation that you want
See stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on

So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
It's best to join the side that's gonna win
And no one's sure how all of this got started
But we're gonna make them goddam certain how its gonna end

But you, but you
You write such pretty words
But life's no story book
Love's an excuse to get hurt

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a girl who's too sad to give a f*ck

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Nebraska - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

A mother's love is the ultimate comfort.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.