Sarah McLachlan Quotes

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose. Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night. You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light. And I will remember you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by. Weep not for the memories.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

My love, you know you are my best friend . You know that I'd do anything for you, and my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.

And it's hard at the end of the day

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.