The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend i…

- Josh Ritter

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

- Josh Ritter

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

- Josh Ritter

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

- Josh Ritter

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

- Josh Ritter

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

- Josh Ritter

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

- Josh Ritter

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

- Josh Ritter

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

- Josh Ritter