Tegan and Sara Quin, the twin sister duo known for their evocative songwriting and compelling harmonies, have captured the hearts of fans worldwide. With a career spanning over two decades, their music explores themes of love, identity, and self-discovery, resonating deeply with audiences. Beyond their music, the sisters are celebrated for their insightful and often poignant words. In this post, we delve into a curated collection of 92 inspiring quotes by Tegan and Sara, offering a glimpse into the minds of these talented artists and the timeless wisdom they share. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to their work, these quotes provide a unique perspective on life, love, and artistry.
1. “The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead” - Tegan Quin
2. “Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.” - Sara Quin
3. “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
4. “Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?” - Sara Quin
5. “Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost, sending your peaceful loss to me.” - Sara Quin
6. “I was a fool for love, I was a fool.” - Tegan Quin
7. “That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it.” - Sara Quin
8. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.” - Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10
9. “Come together. Twins Forever.” - Tegan Quin
10. “Lets be twins forever.” - Tegan Quin
11. “5 days left” - Tegan Quin
12. “Yes I give you everythingYes I give you anythingI gave you everything.” - Tegan Quin
13. “One time in your lifeYou've got the route in hand But the map is stuckThey said it's not your fault The tires are tired the camera movesAnd your driver's been pulled” - Tegan Quin
14. “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
15. “I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe.” - Tegan Quin
16. “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
17. “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
18. “I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you.” - Tegan Quin
19. “Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.” - Tegan Quin
20. “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
21. “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
22. “I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.” - Sara Quin
23. “Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.” - Tegan Quin
24. “All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.” - Tegan Quin
25. “On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.” - Sara Quin
26. “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
27. “No matter which way you go . No matter which way you stay. You're out of my mind, out of my mind.” - Sara Quin
28. “I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.” - Sara Quin
29. “I want the ocean right now. I want the ocean right now. I get so jealous that I can't even work.” - Tegan Quin
30. “How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long.” - Tegan 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. “It's love that leaves and breaks the seal of always thinking you would be real, happy and healthy, strong and calm, where does the good go?” - Tegan Quin
33. “You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking forSpeak slow, tell me love where do we go.” - Tegan Quin
34. “Don't bend, don't bleed, don't beg, don't scream, don't whine, don't fight, don't tell me. Don't tell me, don't tell me. Don't feel, don't tear, don't kiss, don't care, don't touch, don't want me. Don't want me, don't want me. Something's so sick about this, my misery's so addictive. I'm halfway there watching Northshore from the floor singing to you over my shoulder.” - Tegan Quin
35. “Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen” - Sara Quin
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. “Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.” - Sara Quin
38. “What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know.” - Sara Quin
39. “Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You 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. “Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.” - Sara Quin
42. “All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.” - Tegan Quin
43. “You've got the freedom to walk out if you drag you down. You've got the freedom to walk out, If they drag you down. If they drag you, If they drag you. Walk out.” - Tegan Quin
44. “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
45. “Fine, tell them who you think you are. Fine, tell them fine is what you are. And when you finally figure out what it is you need, you better think of me.” - Sara Quin
46. “I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.” - Tegan Quin
47. “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
48. “An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.” - Sara Quin
49. “Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be heard. We want to be heard.” - Sara Quin
50. “The night still confuses me, we'd all get tired and have to sleep eventually. Regardless of the sun's demands. Regardless if it made much sense.” - Tegan Quin
51. “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
52. “So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes of my pose. I suppose, again.” - Tegan Quin
53. “Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what you are. You're gonna be a star. Do you wanna be a superstar?” - Tegan Quin
54. “My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go.” - Tegan Quin
55. “Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again.” - Tegan Quin
56. “I saw my first angel.And it was you.” - Tegan Quin
57. “Most women look at magazines and then they just feel bad about themselves but Sara looks at magazines and she’s all like I can get with her.” - Tegan Quin
58. “If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning?” - Tegan Quin
59. “So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.” - Sara Quin
60. “Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.” - Sara Quin
61. “They didn’t fly out of my body, I actually had to push the little fuckers out.” - Sonia Clement on Tegan and Sara
62. “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
63. “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
64. “You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?” - Tegan Quin
65. “This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go.” - Sara Quin
66. “If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.” - Tegan Quin
67. “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
68. “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
69. “I work so much, I miss the sun shine away. I sleep so little, Watch the stars fade into day.” - Tegan Quin
70. “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
71. “I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs.” - Sara Quin
72. “All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you.” - Sara Quin
73. “I thought you would never find another love again. Oh, but you haven't missed a thing, no you haven't missed a thing.” - Sara Quin
74. “Creep up and tell me that you, you love me more each time you, look into my eyes.” - Tegan and Sara
75. “You slip your hands inside my pockets.Tell me nothing else would do. Without me, you can't live. And, you slip your heart into my chest. They both become one of the strongest pairs when strangers come.” - Tegan and Sara
76. “Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way.” - Tegan Quin
77. “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
78. “I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.” - Sara Quin
79. “It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.” - Sara Quin
80. “I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.” - Tegan and Sara
81. “Prison is not a joke.” - Emy Storey
82. “If you’ve got it to give, You’ve got to give it all. If you’ve got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me.” - Tegan Quin
83. “I'm infamous for being infamous. I don’t think you’re so famous miss. I miss everything, When you’re away from me.” - Tegan Quin
84. “I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.” - Tegan Quin
85. “Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I'm all alone. I'm still missing you, missing you, missing you.” - Tegan Quin
86. “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
87. “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
88. “Hello? It's where I've been so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Hello? It's you and me so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.” - Tegan Quin
89. “I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.” - Sara Quin
90. “I love Sara’s music and there’s no one else i’d rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her.” - Tegan Quin
91. “All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.” - Tegan Quin
92. “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
