Morrissey Quotes

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.
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You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?
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It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind
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Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.
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I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles.
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Cats will be cats.
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My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.
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The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.
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I want fame now, not after I'm dead.
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This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
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Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.
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I understand feminism to be a social savior because it liberates everyone without exclusion, whereas masculinism damns itself by measuring a man's health by the amount of sexual gratification he receives.
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Some girls are bigger than others.
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Why don't you find out for yourself?Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.
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Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
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Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!
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We hate it when our friends become successful.
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Life is a pigsty.
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They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
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Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends
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Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?
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When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!
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I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now.
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Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,he never quite goes this low.
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Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.
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You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.
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There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die.
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I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.
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This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
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You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.
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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 lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love.
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I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
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Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life
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Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.
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Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
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You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
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Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
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I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
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I see the world, it makes me puke,But then I look at you and know,that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
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My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
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It's so shameful of me: I like you.
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Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.
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I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.
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And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
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The heart has a heart of its own.
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I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.
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Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
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The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.
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I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
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Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
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I'd love to...but only with you.
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How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
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Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap - for it does not need your approval, your organised banditry, your prepubescent social laws, your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority... as if a presidential seat gives you an intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain!
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Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!
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With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.
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With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
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I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things.
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I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.
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God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!
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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.
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