Pete Wentz Quotes

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

~ Pete Wentz

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

~ Pete Wentz

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

~ Pete Wentz

He sang “I wish I weren’t me” over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the boy dropped into a depression. Not a cool dark room and cigarette depression like the songs he loved, but one that felt like he was being smothered by a safe, suburban, monotonous blanket. Everything felt like a headache to the boy. Every face, every stupid stuttered sentence all wrapped up into the biggest headache ever. So the boy took an aspirin. And another and another and then went to sleep, lullabyed by hopes he would never wake up to.

~ Pete Wentz

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

~ Pete Wentz

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

~ Pete Wentz

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

~ Pete Wentz

Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.

~ Pete Wentz

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

~ Pete Wentz

The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.

~ Pete Wentz

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

~ Pete Wentz

He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.

~ Pete Wentz

These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself.

~ Pete Wentz

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

~ Pete Wentz

We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

~ Pete Wentz

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

~ Pete Wentz

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

~ Pete Wentz

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

~ Pete Wentz