Nick Drake Quotes

Nick Drake's quotes feel like quiet, wistful reflections on change, vulnerability and mental health.

26 quotes

1. Saw it written and i saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink moon's gonna get ye all.

2. Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

3. Please give me a second grace

4. I just need your star for a day.

5. And I was strong, strong in the sun I thought I'd see when day is done. Now I'm weaker than the palest blue Oh, so weak in the need for you.

6. I can't cope, all the defenses are gone. All the nerves are exposed.

7. I can't think of words. I feel no emotion about anything. I don't want to laugh or cry. I'm numb-dead inside.

8. [Public school is a place] where the sensitive experience a horrified dissociation from reality that can sometimes never fade away.

9. You remember me. You remember me how I was. Tell me how I was. I used to have a brain. I used to be somebody. What happened to me? What happened to me?

10. Sheila Wood: If you're so unhappy Nick, why haven't you killed yourself? Drake: It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage.

11. I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.

12. Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?

13. Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

14. I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Brighten my northern sky.

15. And see she flies, and she is everywhere.

16. If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

17. Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.

18. If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.

19. I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

20. “So forget this cruel world Where I belong I'll just sit and wait And sing my song. And if one day you should see me in the crowd Lend a hand and lift me To your place in the cloud.”

21. “The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.”

22. “It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet]”

23. “And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.”

24. “I was born to sail away, into a land of forever, not to be tied to an old stone grave, in your land of never.”

25. “And the movement in your brain Sends you out into the rain”

26. “You can say the sun is shinning if you really want to I can see the moon and it seems so clear You can take the road that takes you to the stars now I can take the road that'll see me through”