"Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend."
Read quote
16 likes
Quote collection
Robert Hunter quotes (page 2 of 3)
49 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot."
Read quote
14 likes
"When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."
Read quote
13 likes
"Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair"
Read quote
13 likes
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own"
Read quote
12 likes
"There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live"
Read quote
11 likes
"The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master"
Read quote
11 likes
"Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet"
Read quote
10 likes
"When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing."
Read quote
9 likes
"What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through."
Read quote
8 likes
"River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home"
Read quote
7 likes
"Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity."
Read quote
6 likes
"Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane."
Read quote
6 likes
"At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle."
Read quote
6 likes
"Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door."
Read quote
6 likes
"I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools."
Read quote
6 likes
"Without love in a dream it will never come true"
Read quote
6 likes
"Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies."
Read quote
5 likes
"When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own."
Read quote
4 likes
"Let there be songs to fill the air."
Read quote
4 likes