629 Quotes by Bruce Springsteen

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

I suppose I took comfort in the illusion that I could go back. But I'd been around long enough to know history is sealed and unchangeable. You can move on, with a heart stronger in the places it's been broken, create new love. You can hammer pain and trauma into a righteous sword and use it in defense of life, love, human grace and God's blessings. But nobody gets a do-over. Nobody gets to go back and there's only one road out. Ahead, into the dark.

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them.It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.

You can't start a fireWorrying 'bout your little world falling apartThis gun's for hireEven if we're just dancing in the dark

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

Is there anybody alive out there?

Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

I can feel the love I'm a part of surrounding me and flowing through me; I'm near home and I'm standing hand in hand with those I love, past and present, in the sun, on the outskirts of something that feels almost like... being free.

...The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.