Top 40 Emo Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not okay.”

— Gerard Way

Also featured in: Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Doubt Quotes

2. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Passion Quotes, Wise Quotes

3. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

4. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Deep Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

5. “Love simply is.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Soul Quotes

6. “When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Compassion Quotes

7. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Loss Quotes, Pain Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

8. “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

9. “The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Lonely Quotes

10. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

11. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

12. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes, Commitment Quotes

13. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Poetry Quotes

14. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

15. “Listen to your heart. It knows everything.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Passion Quotes, Choices Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

16. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

17. “Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.”

— Warsan Shire

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Sad Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Sorrow Quotes, Pain Quotes

18. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Desire Quotes, Soul Quotes, Quotes About Heart

19. “Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Soul Quotes, Quotes About Heart

20. “I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Desire Quotes

21. “Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It’s out of my control.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Quotes About Songs

22. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Depression Quotes, Pain Quotes, Lonely Quotes

23. “Tears are words the heart can’t express.”

— Gerard Way

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Love You Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Hurt Quotes

24. “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

— James M. Barrie

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Love You Quotes, Different Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

25. “Even those who never frown eventually break down.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Sadness Quotes

26. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

27. “If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Moving Quotes, Healing Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

28. “In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Desire Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes for Her

29. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sad Quotes, Book Quotes About Love, Broken Heart Quotes, Hurt Quotes

30. “People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Quotes About Heart, Love Is Quotes, True Love Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes

31. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Love Is Quotes

32. “The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Existentialism Quotes

33. “Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Depression Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

34. “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Love Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Broken Heart Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes

35. “I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Depression Quotes, Demotivational Quotes

36. “Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Desire Quotes

37. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

38. “Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Hurt Quotes

39. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul?”

— Lana Del Rey

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Quotes About Songs

40. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Love You Quotes, Book Quotes About Love