Top 217 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Morrissey

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

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

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

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.

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

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

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.

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 was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round

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.

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?

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.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

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.

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.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?

America is not the world.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

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

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

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.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

The heart has a heart of its own.

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.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

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.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

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.

I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

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.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

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

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

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

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

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.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

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.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Humans are not really very humane.

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.

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 normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

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'.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!