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These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
The heart has a heart of its own.
I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.
This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.
Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.
I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.
In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
America is not the world.
Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.
I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.
The Queen is the ultimate dictator.
So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?
On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round
Humans are not really very humane.
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
I still prefer horses to human beings.
Nature is a language - can't you read?
I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.
The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes
A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.
I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.
I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?
It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.
Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.
It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).
I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.
That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.
I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?
I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.
When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.
I hated the royal wedding.
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station
God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.
There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Life is very long, when you're lonely.
The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.
I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.
I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.
Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.
Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.
I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.
And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".
Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
You are bound to pick up influences.
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
Robert Smith is a whingebag.
I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.
I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.
It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.
I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.
I'm not very good at being dull.
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.
Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
It's so shameful of me: I like you.
Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you