Selected Quotes By Taylor Swift
"So I sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while."
Taylor Swift, Love
"If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing."
Taylor Swift, Love
"In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust."
Taylor Swift, Love
"At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt."
Taylor Swift, Life
"I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show."
Taylor Swift, Love
"These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life."
Taylor Swift, Life, Love, Music
"She thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things."
Taylor Swift, Love
"A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my."
Taylor Swift, Love
"To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts."
Taylor Swift, Courage Love, Freedom
"But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
Taylor Swift, Courage, Love, Music
"You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future."
Taylor Swift, Love
"There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be."
Taylor Swift, Life, Time
"So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless."
Taylor Swift, Love, Music
"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
Taylor Swift, Love
"But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile."
Taylor Swift, Love
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.
I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."
Taylor Swift, Life
"Wow I can't believe I won, This is awesome, Don't trip and fall, I'm gonna get to thank the fans, This is so cool, Oh kany'e west is here, Cool haircut, What are ya doing there... Ouch... I guess I'm not gonna get to thank the fans."
Taylor Swift, Problems
"Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain."
Taylor Swift, Life
"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you..."
Taylor Swift, Love, Freedom
"FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again... even though every time you've tried before you've lost."
Taylor Swift, Courage
"Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I've wanted one thing for my whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart."
Taylor Swift, Love
"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change."
Taylor Swift, Love
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."
Taylor Swift, Life, Happiness
"So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine."
Taylor Swift, Criticism
"giving up doesn't always mean you're weak, sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."
Taylor Swift, Love
"You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this."
Taylor Swift, Love
"you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry."
Taylor Swift, Love
"Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway..."
Taylor Swift, Courage
"You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Art
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Music
"There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team."
Taylor Swift, Life, Love
"The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now."
Taylor Swift, Life
"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."
Taylor Swift, Life
"It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting
"Just be yourself, there is no one better."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."
Taylor Swift, Life, Music
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
Taylor Swift, Life, Kindness
"I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting
"I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."
Taylor Swift, Love
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
Taylor Swift, Life
"To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’sFEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
Taylor Swift, Courage, Love
"When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."
Taylor Swift, Life
"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."