Top 287 Quotes & Sayings by Alanis Morissette - Page 4

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

How about not equating death with stopping?

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

So many boys, so little time.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.

No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

I want to walk through life.

It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.