Having won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan’s legendary musical and literary talent bring his inspirational lyrics into the lives of the millions of dedicated fans around the world. His own musical inspiration following the tragic death of Buddy Holly has led to a passionate and prolific folk/rock music career, mesmerizing both casual listeners and iconic choreographer, Twyla Tharp. All of these quotes showcase the hypnotic quality of Bob Dylan’s words of wisdom that we could all use to enlighten ourselves, be it in our daily practices, our relationships with others, or our relationships with ourselves.
The future for me is already a thing of the past –
You were my first love and you will be my last
You were my first love and you will be my last
There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.
I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.
You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
Pain brings out the best in people,doesn’t it?
Passion is a young man’s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you’re around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don’t try to act like you’re young. You could really hurt yourself.
People talk about egos as if it were objects.
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart.
Love is all there is, it makes the world go ’round,
Love and only love, it can’t be denied,
No matter what you think about it,
You just won’t be able to do without it,
Take a tip from one who’s tried.
Love and only love, it can’t be denied,
No matter what you think about it,
You just won’t be able to do without it,
Take a tip from one who’s tried.
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it’s a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
All right, I’ll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you.
Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Your problem is that you wanna better word for world
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be…
Beyond here lies nothin’ But the mountains of the past
If ever asked to look at yourself, don’t.
The more you act the further you get away from the truth.
What drives me to you, drives me insane.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
Every pleasure’s got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don’t complain
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison.
When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.
You’re right from your side, I’m right from mine.
If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul…
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there’s no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you’re satisfied one moment – saying yes, it’s a good meal, makes me happy – well, that’s not going to necessarily be true the next hour.
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.
It’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.
Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on.
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening – all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.
To live outside the law you must be honest.
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It’s about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you’re the best whether anybody else tells you or not. And that you’ll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.
I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.
Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about WILL COME TRUE. It’s a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it’s a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It’s best to keep that all inside.
Every man’s conscience is vile and depraved,
You cannot depend on it to be your guide,
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
You cannot depend on it to be your guide,
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
It’s a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain’t falling down.
Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
You’ll never be greater than yourself.
For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
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