Morrissey > Quotes

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

“It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
― Morrissey

“Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”
― Morrissey

“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.”
― Morrissey

“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”
― Morrissey

“Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how people grow up.”
― Morrissey

“I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.”
― Morrissey

“It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”
― Morrissey

“To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.”
― Morrissey

“Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.”
― Morrissey

“I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.”
― Morrissey

“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.”
― Morrissey

“It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.”
― Morrissey

“I am human and I need to be loved,
just like everybody else does.”
― Morrissey

“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.”
― Morrissey

“Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
― Morrissey

“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”
― Morrissey

“Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice.”
― Morrissey

“How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”
― Morrissey

“Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.”
― Morrissey

“The heart has a heart of its own.”
― Morrissey

“David [Bowie] quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.”
― Morrissey

“Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”
― Morrissey

“I am hated for loving.
I am haunted for wanting.”
― Morrissey

“Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me?”
― Morrissey

“I'd love to...but only with you.”
― Morrissey

“I don't mind if you forget me.
Having learned my lesson,
I never left an impression on anyone.”
― Morrissey