Charlotte Eriksson Quotes

What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

My mind is killing me
- The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

Inspiration is everywhere.

I'm here for you. Always. Do you feel me?Hear me? I talk to you every night, does it reach you?

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to go, go, go!

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.

Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.

Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.

I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.

I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone ...

I learn my world through writing.

I can't sleep alone anymore
and I get used to
company
too quickly. You're always gone too soon.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

I am not a broken heart,
and I am not your fault.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

But I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out.

I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it.

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.

You're going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.
You're doing just fine.

I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten.

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

I don't want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

It's just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.

Berlin's getting dark before it's getting late.

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

I'm not everything I want to be, but I'm more than I was, and I'm still learning.