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Top 25 Lydia Lunch Quotes (2025 Update)

Lydia Lunch Quote: “The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.”

1. “The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...”

2. “The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I’m completely optimistic – I know the end is coming!”

3. “I’m completely optimistic – I know the end is coming!”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Think your own thoughts.”

4. “Think your own thoughts.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I’m nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible – but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it’s stubborness that keeps me going.”

5. “I’m nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible – but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it’s stubborness that keeps me going.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I’m a very sympathetic person, but that doesn’t always come across in my work because I’m too busy being mad at everything.”

6. “I’m a very sympathetic person, but that doesn’t always come across in my work because I’m too busy being mad at everything.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?”

7. “There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.”

8. “Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it’s whatever suits me at the moment.”

9. “The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it’s whatever suits me at the moment.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.”

10. “I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I’m a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.”

11. “I’m a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.”

12. “I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.”

13. “I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I’m like a one-woman protest machine.”

14. “I’m like a one-woman protest machine.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.”

15. “My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people – I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.”

16. “I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people – I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.”

17. “Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Sure you’re powerless, sure you’re just one person, sure you can’t change anything but you don’t have to be miserable about it as well.”

18. “Sure you’re powerless, sure you’re just one person, sure you can’t change anything but you don’t have to be miserable about it as well.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I used to think feminism was a liberating force – now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.”

19. “I used to think feminism was a liberating force – now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.”

20. “I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I think it’s important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.”

21. “I think it’s important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one’s self.”

22. “If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one’s self.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.”

23. “The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.”

24. “Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I’m a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.”

25. “I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I’m a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it’s a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed.”

26. “I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it’s a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed.”

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Lydia Lunch Quote: “Just because my bank account hasn’t swelled astronomically I don’t consider myself any less of a success.”

27. “Just because my bank account hasn’t swelled astronomically I don’t consider myself any less of a success.”

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