Hold Your Own Quotes

“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

“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

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans”
― 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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“I didn’t have a clue what it meant
but I’ve been dizzy on that feeling ever since.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“We wander into school, happy children; kind and bright and interested in things. We don’t yet know the horrors of the building. The hatred it will teach. The boredom it will bring.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“We're tied to our fate like it's mythical.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Youth hates age, age loves youth.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Ideas are such perfect things.
But as soon as they're made real
they're cringing, clunky, turgid things,
so difficult to wield.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“But now there is a loneliness so deep it sends me foetal”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Don’t read women’s magazines. They’re bad for your stomach.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“If you're not fighting for it, you don't want it.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“The pain of having fucked things up so bad will never leave us.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Promising each other not to take the vital parts,
While even as they mutter it, they're giving up their hearts”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“The wind was still making an orchestra out of the tent. But it wasn't a requiem anymore.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Do not love the idea of life more than you love life itself.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“But one day,
he'll be hunch-backed, riddled with pain;
Desperate for love but too weak to enjoy it.
Mumbling at strangers on trains, 'how strange
that when we have youth we're so keen to destroy it.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“I move like the boys,
I talk like the boys,
but my words are my own.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own