74 Quotes by Bruce Cockburn

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

In the absence of vision, there are nightmares.

I've been scraping little shavings off my ration of lightAnd I've formed it into a ball, and each time I pack a bit more onto itI make a bowl of my hands and I scoop it from its secret cacheUnder a loose board in the floorAnd I blow across it and I send it to youAgainst those moments whenThe darkness blows under your doorIsn't that what friends are for?

Above the dark townAfter the sun's gone downTwo vapour trails cross the skyCatching the day's last slow goodbyeBlack skyline looks rich as velvetSomething is shiningLike gold but betterRumours of glory...

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.