70 Inspiring Sara Quin Quotes

Sara Quin, one-half of the renowned indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, is not just known for her musical talent and distinct voice but also for her thought-provoking insights and inspirational words. Whether it’s through her songs or interviews, Sara has a unique way of resonating with fans and listeners around the world. In this collection, we've gathered 70 of her most inspiring quotes that showcase her wit, wisdom, and vulnerability. These quotes reflect not only her artistic journey but also her perspectives on life, love, and self-discovery. Dive in to find motivation, comfort, and perhaps a touch of the creative spirit that defines Sara Quin.

1. “All I want to get is a little bit closerAll I want to know is, can you come a little closer?Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closerHere comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer” - Tegan Quin

2. “So let’s make things physical,I won’t treat you like you’re oh so typical” - Tegan Quin

3. “The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead” - Tegan Quin

4. “Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?” - Sara Quin

5. “Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you. Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you.” - Sara Quin

6. “Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you.” - Sara Quin

7. “I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.” - Sara Quin

8. “Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.” - Sara Quin

9. “Come together. Twins Forever.” - Tegan Quin

10. “Lets be twins forever.” - Tegan Quin

11. “I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist.” - Sara Quin

12. “Yes I give you everythingYes I give you anythingI gave you everything.” - Tegan Quin

13. “I saved up all my sunshine Just to see you more clearI'm a little short on solar And I haven't given in” - Tegan Quin

14. “No I'm going to hold you anyway And I'll do it without shakingYes I'll love you always And I'll do it without achingYes I'd give you anythingYes I'd give you anythingI gave you everything” - Tegan Quin

15. “I have always felt thisAnd I, I could never hear itSo I turned it up And turned it onAnd turned it downAlways the volume always the words” - Sara Quin

16. “I've got nowhere to go, I've got nowhere to go.” - Sara Quin

17. “When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I.” - Tegan Quin

18. “I listened inYes I'm guilty of thisYou should know this” - Tegan Quin

19. “Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine.” - Tegan Quin

20. “I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right.” - Tegan Quin

21. “I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you.” - Tegan Quin

22. “Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.” - Tegan Quin

23. “I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.” - Tegan Quin

24. “There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do.” - Tegan Quin

25. “I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.” - Sara Quin

26. “Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow.” - Tegan and Sara

27. “Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.” - Tegan Quin

28. “Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.” - Sara Quin

29. “I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.” - Sara Quin

30. “I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most.” - Sara Quin

31. “We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me” - Tegan Quin

32. “I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.” - Sara Quin

33. “Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen” - Sara Quin

34. “I am disappointed every morning that I wake up. And I am disappointed by the feeling Of waking up next to you.” - Tegan and Sara

35. “I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you.” - Tegan and Sara

36. “I realized I’d learned something about myself. I was like ‘oh man, I’ve let this go’ now I’m starting to talk about it like it’s over and it hadn’t even begun.” - Tegan Quin

37. “Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.” - Tegan and Sara

38. “What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know.” - Sara Quin

39. “There's something so divided, Don't worry about me I'll be fine, Don't live your life for me or for anyone. Live your life as if you're one.” - Tegan Quin

40. “Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.” - Sara Quin

41. “Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.” - Sara Quin

42. “I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.” - Tegan Quin

43. “Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.” - Tegan Quin

44. “An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.” - Sara Quin

45. “He sat me down. He said he was incomplete. He thinks true love's gonna get him back on his feet. He said you only find love once in your life. So I guess when you find it you're gonna hold it right? You'll hold it right?” - Tegan Quin

46. “My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go.” - Tegan Quin

47. “Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again.” - Tegan Quin

48. “Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment.” - Tegan Quin

49. “This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you’re so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape’s holding!” - Sara Quin

50. “What I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.” - Tegan Quin

51. “When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn’t what you were looking for.” - Tegan Quin

52. “I want to show girls you don't have to get married and have kids and give up you dreams. You can conquer the world. YOu can play in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and you can own that shit.” - Tegan Quin

53. “The time you've got me running. The time, you've got me tired. Well I've got more for the world than this.And I've got love that I need to give.” - Tegan Quin

54. “I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?” - Sara Quin

55. “We're queer, but music doesn't have a sexuality. Even if it was more clearly written to women, I still think that music is still just music.” - Sara Quin

56. “When we were doing interviews for our bio, I described hearing that song for the first time to be like Sara was standing on my chest. I just felt really sad, and that was having heard all the other songs in order leading up to that one. I know that when Sara was writing these songs it was during the end of her relationship and it was someone she’d been friends with for almost ten years and been with for four years. It was just the psyche of it, when you’ve known someone for half your life, literally, and then have to leave them, and not necessarily because you want to but just because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s just not healthy and you’re not good anymore, there’s no growth and you have to have growth. And when I hear that song, the idea of that all happening just makes me sick to my stomach a little bit. But it’s in an enjoyable way.” - Tegan Quin

57. “I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.” - Tegan Quin

58. “I work so much, I miss the sun shine away. I sleep so little, Watch the stars fade into day.” - Tegan Quin

59. “I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay.” - Tegan Quin

60. “Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up.” - Tegan Quin

61. “Prison is not a joke.” - Emy Storey

62. “Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?Change,I take the blame.” - Tegan and Sara

63. “I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.” - Tegan Quin

64. “I don't need company in the company of you. And I don't need love, 'Cause your love will do. And I've got you. And you've got me. And that's all we need.” - Tegan Quin

65. “Okay you found me out. Beyond without a doubt, your lie is safe with me. A friend, i'm sure you are. And on this day so far, I've fallen hundred see?” - Tegan Quin

66. “I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.” - Tegan Quin

67. “I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.” - Sara Quin

68. “All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.” - Tegan Quin

69. “I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.” - Sara Quin

70. “I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.” - Sara Quin