Evanescence Quotes

“Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.”
― Evanescence

“When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.”
― Evanescence

“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!”
― Evanescence

“It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.”
― Evanescence

“I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing - fantasy.”
― Evanescence

“I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence.”
― Evanescence

“It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it!”
― Amy Lee

“If people make fun fun of you, you must be doing something right”
― Evanescence

“How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home”
― Evanescence, Bring Me to Life

“The lights became stars,
which became streaks
in the grayspace,
and then networks
of fading
shimmers”
― Ashim Shanker

“I am Evanescence. I am the only band member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.”
― Evanescence Amy Lee

“Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!”
― Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

“Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while”
― Bob Dylan

“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Codes fizzle to Static
They are not lost
But Unheard
Never lost
Fading slowly to Silence
By infinite degrees”
― Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species

“It didn’t matter what he’d said or done in life, in death he was innocent.”
― Callie Hunter, Disenchanted

“A far horizon
embraced by cloud
like a nameless God
beautiful and evaporating”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

“Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that

Never was and never will be
Have you no shame don't you see me
You know you've go everybody fooled

Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she

Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

Without the mask where will you hide
Can't find yourself lost in your lie

I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore

Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you have everybody fooled

It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool”
― Evanescence

“He glanced back at his ship, and a sigh escaped his lips, his heart fraught with the appreciation and melancholy that understanding his own situation must evince. His place as Captain of such a crew was as evanescent as the rest of life, and while they were all collected together now, being of the same character, the same mind, having the same predilections and ambitions, there was no saying when it might be over. He might be called away on urgent business, or his crew might grow anxious for a more settled life, Rannig might wish to return home, or the Director of the Marridon Academy might finally rot, calling Bartleby back to Marridon for the promotion he so richly deserved. He exhaled, reveling in the pining sigh of impermanence which living in such uncertainty must produce.”
― Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute - A Marridon Novella

“Often one wishes for things to repeat; you want to relive a moment that escaped, return to a gesture that didn’t take place or a word that wasn’t uttered; you try to find again the sounds that were left in your throat, the caress you didn’t dare give, the tightening of the chest that is gone forever.”
― Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

“Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken.”
― Evanescence

“Leaves that the wind drives earthward... such are generations of men.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.34