Top 250 Steven Morrissey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

— Steven Morrissey

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2. “It’s so easy to laugh It’s so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind.”

— Steven Morrissey

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3. “Every day is like Sunday. Every day is silent and grey.”

— Steven Morrissey

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4. “Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you’d like to.”

— Steven Morrissey

5. “I still don’t belong to anyone – I am mine.”

— Steven Morrissey

6. “It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”

— Steven Morrissey

7. “Life is very long, when you’re lonely.”

— Steven Morrissey

8. “When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”

— Steven Morrissey

9. “There’s more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”

— Steven Morrissey

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10. “Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It’s like biting into your grandmother.”

— Steven Morrissey

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11. “I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.”

— Steven Morrissey

12. “Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

— Steven Morrissey

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13. “I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.”

— Steven Morrissey

14. “I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now.”

— Steven Morrissey

15. “Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

17. “There are some bad people on the rise; they’re saving their own skins by ruining people’s lives.”

— Steven Morrissey

18. “The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you’re wasting your time.”

— Steven Morrissey

19. “Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.”

— Steven Morrissey

20. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

21. “Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.”

— Steven Morrissey

22. “There is no such thing in life as normal.”

— Steven Morrissey

23. “I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.”

— Steven Morrissey

24. “Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno...”

— Steven Morrissey

25. “If a double decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side Oh the pleasure, the prvilige is mine.”

— Steven Morrissey

26. “If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It’s that simple.”

— Steven Morrissey

27. “I lie a lot – it’s really useful.”

— Steven Morrissey

28. “I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don’t harm anybody.”

— Steven Morrissey

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29. “To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart – that’s if I had one.”

— Steven Morrissey

30. “You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.”

— Steven Morrissey

31. “America is not the world.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

33. “Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.”

— Steven Morrissey

34. “Nature is a language – can’t you read?”

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35. “So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I’ve never been surer It’s my life to ruin My own way...”

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36. “I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.”

— Steven Morrissey

37. “You don’t like me, but you love me; either way, you’re wrong.”

— Steven Morrissey

38. “Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.”

— Steven Morrissey

39. “I left my fingerprints somewhere – that’s good enough. I am my own person – that’s good enough. I stand my ground – that’s good enough.”

— Steven Morrissey

40. “I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you’re evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won’t cry.”

— Steven Morrissey

41. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

42. “I don’t dream about anyone – except myself.”

— Steven Morrissey

43. “I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.”

— Steven Morrissey

44. “In my life why do I smile at people I’d rather kick in the eye?”

— Steven Morrissey

45. “The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.”

— Steven Morrissey

46. “I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that’s saying something for a vegetarian.”

— Steven Morrissey

47. “Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.”

— Steven Morrissey

48. “Life’s full of tricky snakes and ladders.”

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49. “Now this might disturb you, but I find I’m OK by myself; and I don’t need you or your benevolence to make sense.”

— Steven Morrissey

50. “I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.”

— Steven Morrissey