Bruce Springsteen Quotes

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

You can't start a fire without a spark

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

I'm ready to grow young again

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.