Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Emilie Autumn

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Liddell is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author and violinist. Autumn's musical style is described by her as "Fairy Pop", "Fantasy Rock" or "Victoriandustrial". It is influenced by glam rock and from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backup dancers The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque.

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general. — © Emilie Autumn
I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.
If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.
I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.
I do not have OCD OCD OCD.
I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me.
Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.
Studies show that intelligent girls are more depressed because they know the world.
And falling's just another way to fly. — © Emilie Autumn
And falling's just another way to fly.
He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.
There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.
Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.
I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me
I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human
I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.
And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl.
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Once upon a time is now.
If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight.
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.
And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.
Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.
Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed. — © Emilie Autumn
Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.
If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!
Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you.
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.
Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love.
There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night
If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? — © Emilie Autumn
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.
You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.
EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.
Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well, unavailable.
I've been using Steinberg's Cubase exclusively to record and mix my music since the very beginning of my career. It's no exaggeration to say that Cubase has been my partner in bringing my music and message to the world, and, now, they are helping to bring my story to the world as well, as I record the audiobook of my novel.
What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.
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