Morrissey Quotes

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

~ Morrissey

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

There are more than enoughto fight and oppose,why waste good timefighting the people you like?

~ Morrissey

There are some bad people on the rise,they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

~ Morrissey

Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now.

~ Morrissey

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,he never quite goes this low.

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

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?

~ Morrissey

Life is a pigsty.

~ Morrissey

We hate it when our friends become successful.

~ Morrissey

Rush to danger, wind up nowhere.

~ Morrissey

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

~ Morrissey

Why don't you find out for yourself?Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

Cats will be cats.

~ Morrissey

You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey

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 find it very sad.

~ Morrissey

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

~ Morrissey

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

~ Morrissey

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

~ Morrissey

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

~ Morrissey

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

~ Morrissey

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

~ Morrissey

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.

~ Morrissey