For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Immortality
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Equality
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
—Bob Dylan
I’m a firm believer in the longer you live, the better you get.
—Bob Dylan
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past—whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Experience
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
—Bob Dylan
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Travel, Tourism
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Heroes, Heroes/Heroism, Heroism
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
—Bob Dylan
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Memory, Living
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Regret
Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Genius, Violence
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Gratitude
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Presidency
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Maturity
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
—Bob Dylan
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Friendship
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: One liners, Busy, Life and Living, Growth
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 there’s some kind of change.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Future, Thinking
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
—Bob Dylan
She knows there’s no success like failure, and that failure’s no success at all.
—Bob Dylan
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Twentieth Century
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Success & Failure, Men, Success, Money
I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Nature
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Poetry, Poets
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon—but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx—the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Blame
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
—Bob Dylan
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Twentieth Century
Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Heaven
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