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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Better to have been a dickhead and seen it,
than be a cunt all your life and not know it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover is finding the rust
in their kiss.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“We die so others can be born
We age so others can be young
The point of life is live,
Love if you can
Then pass it on.

- We Die”
― Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos

“The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we’ll work to keep them.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“But on dark days he likes to walk
Beside the heartsick sea.
And as the waves begin to howl
He drops down to his knees,
And cries for all he's lost
And for all he used to be.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“True love takes its toll
On souls
Who are not used to feeling whole”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Everybody’s looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“She flicks her words like lit matches. They drop delicately, burning.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“there’s always been heroes,
there’s always been villains,
the stakes may have changed
but really there’s no difference.

there’s always been greed
and heartbreak and ambition.
jealousy, love,
trespass and contrition,

we’re the same beings that began,
still living,
in all of our fury and foulness and friction.
Everyday odysseys.
Dreams vs decisions.
The stories are there if you listen.”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem

“Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it’s hard to be an angel until you’ve been a demon.”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem

“How to follow orders when you're bordering on nausea and you're bored and insecure and dwarfed by fear.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“It gets to painful. You give too much, they take too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourself emptied out and open handed, grabbing for some more.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“If you've been an arsehole today, acknowledge it.
Try not to be one tomorrow.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“But we are still mythical. We are still permanently trapped somewhere between the heroic and the pitiful. We are still godly; that’s what makes us so monstrous. But it feels like we’ve forgotten we’re much more than the sum of all the things that belong to us.”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem

“What happened to us? We go parties now, and we've nothing to say to each other 'til we're fucked. And even then. We spend hours talking about parties from before, things that happened to us once, we spend life retelling life and it's pointless and boring.”
― Kate Tempest, Wasted

“Sun of himself. All things are his moons.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“If you allow approval to define you, you will have no choice but to allow disapproval to define you when it comes.”
― Kae Tempest, On Connection

“Look again and you will see the Gods rise in the most human and unassuming of eyes.”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem

“Coz it’s big business, baby,
and its smile is hideous.
Top-down violence.
Structural viciousness.

Your kids are doped up
on prescriptions and sedatives.
But don’t worry 'bout that, man,
Worry 'bout
terrorists.

The water level's rising!
The water level's rising!
The animals -
the polar bears
the elephants are dying.
STOP CRYING START BUYING!!

But what about the oil spill?

Shh.
No one likes a party-pooping spoilsport.

Massacres massacres massacres/new shoes
ghettoised children murdered in daylight
by those employed to protect them.
Porn live-streamed to your pre-teens bedrooms.
Glass ceiling. No headroom.
Half a generation live beneath the breadline -
oh but it's Happy Hour on
the high street!

- Europe is Lost”
― Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos

“Hard rain falling,
on all the half-hearted
half-formed
fast walking
Half-fury, half-boredom.
Hard talking.
Half dead from exhaustion.
Hard pushed,
but the puddles keep forming
Don't fall in.

- Don't Fall In”
― Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos

“she must learn
to forgive herself and move on
'cos what happens in love
is beyond right or wrong;”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem