Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

I never got really good at hockey.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.