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210 Lana Del Rey Quotes That Are Truly Mesmerizing

210 Lana Del Rey Quotes That Are Truly Mesmerizing

Like a poet of the modern age, Lana Del Rey’s lyrics have a way of touching the heart and mind at the same time. Without further ado, let’s enjoy these amazing Lana Del Rey quotes!

Top 10 Lana Del Rey Quotes Picked By Author

1. “And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me.” ― Lana Del Rey

And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me

2. “I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “I will love you ’til the end of time.” ― Lana Del Rey

I will love you 'til the end of time

6. “We both knew it, right away.” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them.” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.” ― Lana Del Rey

9. “I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “I told you that no matter what you did I’d be by your side, cause Imma ride or die.” ― Lana Del Rey

I told you that no matter what you did I'd be by your side, cause Imma ride or die

Lana Del Rey Quotes About Love

1. “And I still love him. I love him.” ― Lana Del Rey

And I still love him. I love him.

2. “No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “And as the years went on, things got more difficult – we were faced with more challenges. I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it. When he walked in every woman’s head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him. He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn’t contain himself. I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him. And in that way, I understood him and I loved him.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.” ― Lana Del Rey

When your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love.

6. “Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”― Lana Del Rey

7. “Promise you’ll remember that you’re mine.” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “I begged him to stay, Tried to remember what we had in the beginning.” ― Lana Del Rey

9. “And in that way, I understood him.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “And I remember when I met him. It was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew right away.” ― Lana Del Rey

And I remember when I met him. It was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew right away.

11. “Everytime I close my eyes it’s like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, I’m scared that you won’t be waiting on the other side.” ― Lana Del Rey

12. “I paint my nails black, I dye my hair a darker shade of brown, ’cause you like your women Spanish, dark, strong and proud.” ― Lana Del Rey

13. “I paint the sky black , you said if you could have your way – you’d make a night time of today. So it’d suit the mood of your soul.” ― Lana Del Rey

14. “But if you send for me you know I’ll come.” ― Lana Del Rey

15. “Will you still love me when I shine, from words but not from beauty?” ― Lana Del Rey

Will you still love me when I shine, from words but not from beauty

16. “My old man is a bad man but I can’t deny the way he holds my hand and he grabs me, he has me by my heart” ― Lana Del Rey

17. “He doesn’t mind that I have a Las Vegas past. He doesn’t mind I have an LA crass way about me. He loves me with every beat of his coc*ine heart” ― Lana Del Rey

18. “Light of my life, fire of my loins. Give me them gold coins, gimme them coins.” ― Lana Del Rey

19. “Because I’m crazy, baby I need you to come here and save me, I’m your little scarlet, starlet singing in the garden.” ― Lana Del Rey

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20. “My old man is a tough man but he’s got a soul as sweet as blood red jam , and he shows me, he knows me – every inch of my tar black soul” ― Lana Del Rey

My old man is a tough man but he's got a soul as sweet as blood red jam

21. “He doesn’t mind I have a flat broke down life. In fact he says he thinks it’s why he might like about me. admires me, the way I roll like a Rolling Stone” ― Lana Del Rey

22. “Love you but I’m going down. God I’m so crazy, baby, I’m sorry that I’m misbehaving.” ― Lana Del Rey

23. “My old man is a thief and I’m gonna stay and pray with him ’til the end. But I trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us.” ― Lana Del Rey

24. “You’re lying with your gold chain on, cigar hanging from your lips

I said “Hon’ you never looked so beautiful as you do now, my man.” ― Lana Del Rey

25. “Keep me forever, tell me you own me.” ― Lana Del Rey

Keep me forever, tell me you own me

26. “Boy you’re so crazy, baby, I love you forever not maybe. You are my one true love, you are my one true love.” ― Lana Del Rey

27. “Share my body and my life with you.” ― Lana Del Rey

28. “Kiss me hard before you go.” ― Lana Del Rey

29. “All those little times you said that I’m your girl. You make me feel like your whole world.” ― Lana Del Rey

30. “I’m not afraid to say that I’d die without him. Who else is gonna put up with me this way?” ― Lana Del Rey

I'm not afraid to say that I'd die without him. Who else is gonna put up with me this way

31. “Summer’s in the air and baby, heaven’s in your eyes” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

32. “He used to call me DN

That stood for deadly nightshade

Cause I was filled with poison

But blessed with beauty and rage.” ― Lana Del Rey

See also: 140 Blessing Quotes To Awaken Your Gratefulness

33. “My devil loves your angel, you can’t take that away.

See if she’ll take her halo off, if only for today.” ― Lana Del Rey

34. “I said real love, it’s like feeling no fear when you’re standing in the face of danger.” ― Lana Del Rey

35. “It’s amazing what women in love will do.” ― Lana Del Rey

It's amazing what women in love will do

36. “A touch

From your real love

It’s like heaven taking the place of something evil

And lettin’ it burn off from the rush.”  ― Lana Del Rey

37. “Love, is it real love?” ― Lana Del Rey

38. “He used to call me poison

Like I was poison ivy

I could have died right there

Because he was right beside me.” ― Lana Del Rey

39. “But honestly if you weren’t here

I don’t know what things would look like” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

40. “I measure time by the days i’ve spent away from you that thought occurred to me as i watched the sky go dark from blue” ― Lana Del Rey

I measure time by the days i’ve spent away from you that thought occurred to me as i watched the sky go dark from blue

Short Lana Del Rey Quotes

1. “Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough. I don’t know why.” ― Lana Del Rey

Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough. I don’t know why

2. “I’ve got a war in my mind” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

3. “If I get a little prettier can I be your baby?” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “I don’t really wanna know what’s good for me.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “​​No one’s gonna take my soul away.” ― Lana Del Rey

No one's gonna take my soul away.

6.“Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “I am my only God.” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “Springsteen is the king, don’t you think? I was like, hell yeah, that guy can sing.” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

9. “I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself I ride, I just ride.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “I believe in the person I want to become.” ― Lana Del Rey

I believe in the person I want to become.

11. “Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?” ― Lana Del Rey 

12. “Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night.” ― Lana Del Rey

13. “He’s got the fire and he walks with fame.” ― Lana Del Rey

14. “I’m finally happy now that you’re gone.” ― Lana Del Rey

15. “I need you, I breathe you, I never leave you.” ― Lana Del Rey

I need you, I breathe you, I never leave you

16. “You’re only as happy as your least happy child.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

17. “I love you the first time, I love you the last time.” ― Lana Del Rey

18. “Cause I’m your jazz singer, and you’re my cult leader.  I love you forever.” ― Lana Del Rey

19. “For years I begged you/ to just take me in your arms/ you wouldn’t. Couldn’t.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

20. “Come on, baby, let’s ride. We can escape to the great sunshine” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

Come on, baby, let's ride. We can escape to the great sunshine

21. “You say that I am flawless, true, perfection.” ― Lana Del Rey

22. “God, you’re so handsome” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

23. “Live your life like no one’s listening” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

24. “I’ve never really fallen in love

but whatever this feeling is 

I wish everyone could experience it” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

25. “I want to be your object of your affection. Give me all your time, touch, money, and attention.” ― Lana Del Rey

I want to be your object of your affection. Give me all your time, touch, money, and attention.

26. “love is rising

No resisting

cheeks are flushing

Now you’re living” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

27. “But I love myself when I lost you” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon

28. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?” ― Lana Del Rey

29. “It can’t always be about waiting for u” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

30. “No one compares to you.” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

No one compares to you.

Famous Lana Del Rey Quotes

1. “But when you walked out that door, a piece of me died. I told you I wanted more-but that’s not what I had in mind” ― Lana Del Rey

But when you walked out that door, a piece of me died. I told you I wanted more-but that's not what I had in mind

2. “I was always an unusual girl.

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “Doing what you love is freedom.

Loving what you do is happiness.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.” ― Lana Del Rey

The world needs poetry now more than ever

6. “You’re a hard man to love and I’m

A hard woman to keep track of

You like to rage, don’t do that

You want your way, you make me so mad.” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “I like u so much/ but it makes me nervous when u don’t call/ under my breath i say/ Don’t make me be resilient/ i want to be soft/ if u let me be myself/ u will be the first one who ever did.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

8. “Be the art that life is breathing.

Be the soul the world is living.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

9. “We don’t need nobody

‘Cause we got each other,

Or at least I pretend.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

11.  “In me the earth moves around the sun no land all sea” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

12. “Am i being brazen for saying this year makes me feel

like we could’ve wrote it better” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

13. “I let you know that I knew the true nature of your heart- that it was evil that it convinced me that darkness is real that the devil is a real devil and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

14. “Open the front door

Hello I say to no one

I know no one’s home” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

15. “Maybe an artist has to function a little bit above themselves if they really want to transmit some heaven” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Maybe an artist has to function a little bit above themselves if they really want to transmit some heaven

16. “Thank you for being here, for being witness to my vastness.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

17. “On our honeymoon, say you want me too.” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon

See also: 120 Cute Couple Captions For Instagram For Honeymooners

18. “My thoughts have changed

my voice is higher

now i’m over u” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

19. “and it’s not just because of the warmth i’ve found in your brown eyes- it’s because I believe in the goodness in me that it’s firm enough to plant a flag in” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

20. “Sometimes it feels like I’ve got a war on my mind. I want to get off but I keep riding the ride.” ― Lana Del Rey

Sometimes it feels like I've got a war on my mind. I want to get off but I keep riding the ride

21. “it’s just that I belong to no one, which means

there’s only one place for me

the city not quite awake

the city not quite asleep

the city that’s something else- something in between

the city that’s still deciding” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

See also: 130 Buddhist Quotes To Help You Become The Awakened One

22. I never really noticed that I had to decide – to play someone’s game or live my own life” ― Lana Del Rey

23. “For that reason- Let me love you. Don’t mind my desperation, let me hold you not just for vacation but for real and forever. Make it real life, let me be a real wife to you. Girlfriend, lover, mother, friend.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

24. “Or should I just be here now

In the kitchen

Bare feet on linoleum

Bores – but not unhappy” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

25. “And in that moment I decided to do nothing about everything forever” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

And in that moment I decided to do nothing about everything forever

26. “The way that I feel with you is something like aching

inside my stomach the cosmos are baking

A universe hung like a mobile

the alignment of these planets unique

In me the earth moves around the sun

no land all sea” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

27. “No one ever touched me without wanting to kill me

except for a healer on 6th Street and Ridgeley” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

28. “Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother, Jesus is my bestest friend.” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

29. “Poets – like comics

Are inherently quite sad

Better off alone.” ― Lana Del Rey

30. “You learn the most about somebody through seeing them interact with other people.” ― Lana Del Rey

You learn the most about somebody through seeing them interact with other people

Lana Del Rey Lyric Quotes

1. “But I still remember that day we met in December.” ― Lana Del Rey

But I still remember that day we met in December.

2. “Who are you?

Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?

Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?

I have. I am fuc*ing crazy.

But I am free.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.

But I didn’t really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “I’m tired of feeling like I’m fuc*ing crazy.

I’m tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “Loving you forever can’t be wrong. Even though you’re not here, can’t move on” ― Lana Del Rey

Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on

6. “Money is the anthem, of success, so put on your mascara and your party dress” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast

I am alone in the night

Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I

I’ve got a war in my mind

So, I just ride” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “Will you still love me

When I’m no longer young and beautiful?

Will you still love me

When I got nothing but my aching soul?

I know you will, I know you will

I know that you will

Will you still love me when I’m no longer beautiful?” ― Lana Del Rey

9. “The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “Think I’ll miss you forever, like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.” ― Lana Del Rey

Think I'll miss you forever, like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky

11. “Mary praised the rosary for my broken mind.” ― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey – Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

12. “They judge me like a picture book,

For the colors like they forgot to read” ― Lana Del Rey

13. “I measure time by the days I’ve spent away from you/ that thought occurred to me, as i watched the sky go dark from blue” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

14. “My father’s love was always strong

My mother’s glamour lives on and on.

Yet still inside I felt alone,

for reasons unknown to me.” ― Lana Del Rey

See also: 140 Quotes About Solitude That Will Make Sense To You

15. “I was an Angel, living in the garden of evil.” ― Lana Del Rey

I was an Angel, living in the garden of evil.

16. “When you talk it’s like a movie and you’re making me crazy – Cause life imitates art” ― Lana Del Rey

17. “Likes to watch me in the glass room bathroom, Chateau Marmont

Slippin’ on my red dress, puttin’ on my makeup

Glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac

Fumes, says it feels like heaven to him.” ― Lana Del Rey

18. “Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight” ― Lana Del Rey

19. “In my veins that roll you run citrus watercolor images of serpents on orange trees quietly arise and grow sweet in my midst” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

20. “You’re divine. Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s OK to shine?” ― Lana Del Rey,  Born to Die: The Paradise Edition

You're divine. Didn't anyone ever tell you it's OK to shine

21. “I paint the house black

My wedding dress black leather too

You have no room for light

Love is lost on you

I keep my lips red

The same like cherries in the spring

Darling, you can’t let everything

Seem so dark blue” ― Lana Del Rey

22. “Blue hydrangea, cold cash, divine,

Cashmere, cologne and white sunshine.” ― Lana Del Rey

23. “Those summer nights seem long ago, and so is the girl you used to call  The Queen of New York City.” ― Lana Del Rey

24. “Put my little red party dress on, everybody knows that I’m the best, I’m crazy.” ― Lana Del Rey

25. “And if you call for me you know I’ll run. I’ll run to you.” ― Lana Del Rey

And if you call for me you know I'll run. I'll run to you.

26. “All the pretty stars shine for you, my love.” ― Lana Del Rey

27. “Well, I pawned the earrings that you gave me

Gold and made of flowers dangling

And I almost cried as I sold them all

I don’t mind living on bread and oranges, no no

But I gotta get to and from where I come

And it’s gonna take money to go.” ― Lana Del Rey

28. “In the name of higher consciousness

I let the best man I knew go

‘Cause it’s nice to love and be loved 

But it’s better to know all you can know.” ― Lana Del Rey

29. “No man can keep me together, been broken since I was born.” ― Lana Del Rey

30. “Man to man, heart to heart. I love you but you drive me so far, Wish you well on that star” ― Lana Del Rey

Man to man, heart to heart. I love you but you drive me so far, Wish you well on that star

31. “Heaven is on earth

I will do anything for you, babe

Blessed is this, this union 

Crying tears of gold, like lemonade.” ― Lana Del Rey

32. “My clothes still smell like you,

And all the photographs say you’re still young.

I pretend I’m not hurt

And go about the world like I’m havin’ fun.” ― Lana Del Rey

33. “Pick me up after school, actin’ kinda shady

You’re the coolest kid in town, I’m your little lady.” ― Lana Del Rey

34. “He’s my love, the life saver. Don’t step on my bad behavior.” ― Lana Del Rey

35. “I want my cake and I wanna eat it too. I wanna have fun and be in love with you..” ― Lana Del Rey

I want my cake and I wanna eat it too. I wanna have fun and be in love with you

36. “It’s time like this as the marine layer lifts

off the sea off the dock where we’re standing with the candle lit

that i think to myself

there’s things you still don’t know about me

like sometimes I’m afraid my sadness is too big

and that one day you might have to help me handle it” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

37. “Do what you want

For you only

Not for giving

Just for taking

No one’s listening” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

38. “I just wanted you to know,

That baby, you the best.” ― Lana Del Rey

39. “Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere,

Nothing’ scares me anymore!” ― Lana Del Rey

40. “Got my bad baby by my heavenly side, I know if I go, I’ll die happy tonight”  ― Lana Del Rey

Got my bad baby by my heavenly side, I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight

Lana Del Rey Quotes About Life

1. “It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is” ― Lana Del Rey

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

2. “Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not a very popular one, who once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didn’t mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” ― Lana Del Rey

See also: 160 Memory Quotes That Will Help You Reflect On Past

4. “Whether you fail or fly, well s*it, at least you tried.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do” ― Lana Del Rey

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

6. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.

We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “And as the years went on things got more difficult,

We were faced with more challenges.” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “He was charismatic, magnetic, electric, and everybody knew him

When he walked in, every woman’s head turned.”  ― Lana Del Rey

9. “Life is beautiful but you don’t have a clue, Sun and ocean blue – their magnificence, it don’t make sense to you.” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “Because you’re young, you’re wild, you’re free, you’re dancin’ circles around me.” ― Lana Del Rey

Because you're young, you're wild, you're free, you're dancin' circles around me

11. “The power of youth is on my mind, sunsets, small town, I’m out of time.” ― Lana Del Rey

See also: 90 Sunset Quotes To Appreciate The Beauty Of Nature

12. “Don’t say you need me when you leave and you leave again.” ― Lana Del Rey

13. “I was filled with poison, but blessed with beauty and rage” ― Lana Del Rey

14. “They say make lemonade out of lemons, but I try and I just can’t understand it” ― Lana Del Rey

15. “Life doesn’t always work out like you planned it” ― Lana Del Rey

Life doesn't always work out like you planned it

16. “Man makes plans and God laughs

Why do I even bother to ask?” ― Lana Del Rey

17. “I stepped on a bird/ cried in my new boyfriend’s arms/ to live is to kill” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

See also: 130 Inspiring Bird Quotes To Embrace The Wings Of Wisdom

18. “Even walking alone, I’m not worried. I feel your arms all around me.” ― Lana Del Rey

19. “Am I being brazen for saying this year makes me feel/ like we could’ve written it better/ than him?” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

20. “I think about the last time my friends were driving with me

how the radio was so loud we couldn’t hear the words

so we became the music – 

happy” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

we couldn't hear the words so we became the music

21. “I believe in the goodness in me that it’s firm enough to plant a flag in, or a rosebud, or to build a new life.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

22. “But lately I’ve been thinking that I wish someone had told me when I was younger more about the inhabitants that thrive off of paradise. That should they take too much there will be nothing left to give.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

23. “I was once in love with my life here” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

24. “Because my bedroom is a sacred place now that there are children at the end of my bed, telling me stories about the friends that they pretend to hate, that they will make up with later. And there are fresh cut flowers that I grew myself in vases from the yard on nightstands, hand carved by old pals from Big Sur” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

25. “Because i have faith in a man, as strange as that seems in times like these” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Because i have faith in a man, as strange as that seems in times like these

26. “every movie theater ticket just to remind me

of all the things i’ve loved and lost and love again

Unconditionally” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

27. “it’s times like this as the marine layer lifts

off the sea on the dock where we’re standing

that i think to myself

there’s still things you still don’t know about me” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

28. “Be the art that life is breathing. Be the soul the world is living.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

29. “If you dance, i´ll dance and if you don´t, i´ll dance anyway” ― Lana Del Rey

See also: 120 Dance Quotes To Inspire Your Inner Dancer

30. “Say goodbye now, no resisting. Live your life like no one’s listening” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Say goodbye now, no resisting. Live your life like no one's listening

Deep Lana Del Rey Quotes

1. “His Parliament’s on fire and his hands are up.” ― Lana Del Rey

His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up

2. “And if I said that I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying- because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one- who belonged to everyone, who had nothing- who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about- and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.” ― Lana Del Rey

3. “Share my body and my mind with you.” ― Lana Del Rey

4. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.” ― Lana Del Rey

5. “But that’s what happens when you’re on your own, and you’re alright letting nice things go” ― Lana Del Rey

But that's what happens when you're on your own, and you're alright letting nice things go

6. “I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.

But I didn’t really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I’d been living, they asked me why – but there’s no use in talking to people who have home.

They have no idea what it’s like to seek safety in other people – for home to be wherever you lay your head.” ― Lana Del Rey

7. “When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley.” ― Lana Del Rey

8. “In the land of Gods and Monsters, I was an Angel living in the garden of Evil.” ― Lana Del Rey

9. “Take me as I am. Don’t see me for what I’m not” ― Lana Del Rey

10. “There’s nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. You let me in, don’t leave me out.” ― Lana Del Rey

There's nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. You let me in, don't leave me out

11. “there’s things you still don’t know about me

like sometimes i’m afraid my sadness is too big

and that one day you might have to help me handle it” ― Lana Del Rey, Violent Bent Backwards Over The Grass

12. “Stay on your path Sylvia Plath

don’t fall away like all the

Others” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

13. “and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

14. “You don’t want to be forgotten

You just want to disappear” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

15. “God bless America, and all the beautiful women in it. May you stand proud and strong.” ― Lana Del Rey

God bless America, and all the beautiful women in it. May you stand proud and strong

16. “Because captains aren’t like

poets

they don’t make metaphors

between the sea and the sky.

And as I thought that to myself

I realized –

that’s why I write.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

17. “and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

18. “But there’s always been just a little tiny piece of me inside the size of a small slice of angel cake that knows somewhere somehow That I deserved better than someone like you.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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19. “I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn’t love me lives there” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

20. “I love you, but you don’t understand me, I’m a real poet! My life is my poetry, my lovemaking is my legacy!” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

I love you, but you don’t understand me, I’m a real poet

21. “But alas this is a real life – and it’s been a real fight just to keep my mind from committing treason.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

22. “Thank you for being here for bearing witness to my vastness Through the years I’ve called you in and out of my orbit You, in your madness” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

23. “that i pray that i may always keep my eyes level to your eye line never downcast at the table cloth too nervous to share my innermost thoughts with you” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

24. “Close your eyes and feel where you hold your attention if it’s in the back of your eyes walk it down to your heart center and make that the new place from which your thoughts enter” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

25. “The universe exists because we are aware of it.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

The universe exists because we are aware of it

26. “you don’t want to be forgotten

You just want to disappear” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

27. “I was brave and it would’ve been easier to stay” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

28. “Don’t tell anyone but

part of my reasoning for taking the flight class was this idea

that if i could become my own navigator- a captain of the sky

that perhaps i could stop looking for direction- from you.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

29. “There’s things I wanna say to you, but I’ll just let you live. like if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

30. “Not everyone’s nature is golden and green. And you can’t fight what’s in your nature” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

And you can’t fight what’s in your nature

31. “Get out of my blood, salamander!
I can’t seem to blow off enough steam to get you out of my head” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

32. “because things that can’t be bought can’t be evaluated, and that makes them beyond human reach” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

33. “and the longer i stay here, the more i am sure

that the more i step into becoming a poet the less

i will fall into being with you

the more i step into my poetry the less i will fall into

being with you” ― Lana Del Rey

34. “Don’t take all your secrets alone to your watery grave about lovers and mother” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

35. “There’s no relief, I see you in my sleep… And everybody’s rushing me, but I can feel you touching me. There’s no release, I feel you in my dreams, telling me I’m fine” ― Lana Del Rey

There's no relief, I see you in my sleep

36. “I’m scared that you won’t be waiting on the other side.” ― Lana Del Rey

37. “now everything I have is perfect

nothing much to do

just perfect florals

green embroidered chairs

one dress to choose” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

38. “I smile when i hear simulated children laughing

cause i know it’s u

it’s the little things that make me smile

i keep them just for myself

i like u so much

but it makes me nervous when u don’t call

under my breath i say

Don’t make me be resilient

i so want to be soft

if u let me be myself

u will be the first one who ever did.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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39. “But the city that dreams for sure
if by dreams you mean nightmares.” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

40. “I’m a dreamer but I’m from nowhere, who am I to dream?” ― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

I’m a dreamer but I’m from nowhere, who am I to dream

Final Word

Mom, it’s not a phase – I would always yell back at my mom after she tells me to tone down that “annoying, depressing music”. What an insult!

I used to listen to Lana Del Rey 24/7 in my teens, around 2014. And trust me, it was definitely NOT a phase because I listen to her music to this day. Therefore, these Lana Del Rey quotes really have a special place in my heart.

When you cannot comprehend your emotions, this beautiful artist named Lana often has the answer to them. Almost like she understands everything, and she makes heart-touching songs about it.

She was definitely my safe place in my teenage years, and she remains to be it even today. Therefore, this article named Lana Del Rey quotes, will be a little thank you note to her, for being there in the times of need.

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