Charlotte Eriksson Quotes

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason, it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Inspiration is everywhere.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you loveand they also say that the only romance worth fighting foris the one with yourselfand I know by nowthat they say a lot of things,people talking everywherewithout saying a word,but if it took me all those years to learn myselfor teach myselfhow to look into the mirrorwithout breaking itI know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.I stood up for my own head and so did my heartand we are coming to terms with ourselves.Shaking hands, saying ”let’s make this workfor we have places to goand people to seeand we will need each other”So I have hopein who I am becoming.It’s Julyand I have hope in who I am becoming.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You’re lonely,” they say,but it doesn’t scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don’t break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say watch me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I am not sad anymore. I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like I’ve always been, they say, so I changed. And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodded and smiled, dying silently a little bit inside.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’s smell can make you feel at home even though you’re a million miles away fromhomeand have you ever hurt someone you love? Because you’re angry. Because you’re disappointed and sad and you just really wanted to love and be loved in returnbut life got in the way and you both said things that should never be said and you’re angry but don’t know how to. Because you still feel this strange love for him, but you’re also fucking angry and you want to hit him, but then hug him because hurting him is hurting yourself, and then hit him again because you’re angry! and so you fall on your knees because you’re hopeless to yourself and your own emotionsand that’s love, my friend.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds of colors but way too soon I stood on his table sad and dried up. I forgot to nourish myself and the sun never shone from my sky.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it’s hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can’t get up. You’re too far down.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Charlotte Eriksson