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Top 30 Viv Albertine Quotes (2025 Update)

Viv Albertine Quote: “The two most important men in my life want me to deny who I am. As if it’s shameful.”

1. “The two most important men in my life want me to deny who I am. As if it’s shameful.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I think of it as saying Yes to Nothing. If your choice is either the wrong thing or nothing, however frightened you are, you’ve got to take nothing. Haven’t you? Hasn’t everyone? No husband, no lover, no band, no money, no confidence. Here goes nothing.”

2. “I think of it as saying Yes to Nothing. If your choice is either the wrong thing or nothing, however frightened you are, you’ve got to take nothing. Haven’t you? Hasn’t everyone? No husband, no lover, no band, no money, no confidence. Here goes nothing.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”

3. “I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I also tried to look conventionally attractive when I was in the Slits, but kicked against it at the same time. It’s a painful position to be in, having a side, but being inexorably drawn to the other side too.”

4. “I also tried to look conventionally attractive when I was in the Slits, but kicked against it at the same time. It’s a painful position to be in, having a side, but being inexorably drawn to the other side too.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “It’s often not until after a decision is made that you know whether you’ve made the right choice. The relief tells you.”

5. “It’s often not until after a decision is made that you know whether you’ve made the right choice. The relief tells you.”

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Viv Albertine Quote: “You try all your life to be an adult, but something deep down inside you will always be that child.”

6. “You try all your life to be an adult, but something deep down inside you will always be that child.”

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Viv Albertine Quote: “Worse than being stuck with someone ill or being alone forever is the thought that I’ll grow to love a person very much and won’t have them for very long. Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.”

7. “Worse than being stuck with someone ill or being alone forever is the thought that I’ll grow to love a person very much and won’t have them for very long. Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Every decision you make in life sends you off down a path that could turn out to be a wrong one. A couple of careless decisions somewhere along the line, that’s all it takes to waste years – but then you can’t creep along being so cautious that you don’t have adventures. It’s difficult to get the balance right.”

8. “Every decision you make in life sends you off down a path that could turn out to be a wrong one. A couple of careless decisions somewhere along the line, that’s all it takes to waste years – but then you can’t creep along being so cautious that you don’t have adventures. It’s difficult to get the balance right.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “We cry as loud as we can, hoping Mum will stop him or the neighbors will hear us and come round and tell him off or have him sent to prison. But no one interferes once you’ve shut the front door of your home. The house next door could be in a different country for all they care.”

9. “We cry as loud as we can, hoping Mum will stop him or the neighbors will hear us and come round and tell him off or have him sent to prison. But no one interferes once you’ve shut the front door of your home. The house next door could be in a different country for all they care.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I ignore him. I never look at him or speak to him and change my phone number. It’s the only way to deal with an obsessive.”

10. “I ignore him. I never look at him or speak to him and change my phone number. It’s the only way to deal with an obsessive.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I think of it as saying Yes to Nothing. If your choice is either the wrong thing or nothing, however frightened you are, you’ve got to take nothing. Haven’t you?”

11. “I think of it as saying Yes to Nothing. If your choice is either the wrong thing or nothing, however frightened you are, you’ve got to take nothing. Haven’t you?”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Perhaps ‘defective’ is a middle-aged person’s default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off.”

12. “Perhaps ‘defective’ is a middle-aged person’s default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Having periods changed my personality: resentful and angry inside, I felt cheated and knew to the core of my being that life was unfair and boys had it easier than girls. A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me.”

13. “Having periods changed my personality: resentful and angry inside, I felt cheated and knew to the core of my being that life was unfair and boys had it easier than girls. A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. I’m a bit of both.”

14. “Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. I’m a bit of both.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “No matter how silly you feel or uncool you look, no matter how small that voice inside you is, that voice telling you something isn’t right: listen to it.”

15. “No matter how silly you feel or uncool you look, no matter how small that voice inside you is, that voice telling you something isn’t right: listen to it.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I’m too outspoken for most people, they think you’re rude if you tell the truth. ‘Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”

16. “I’m too outspoken for most people, they think you’re rude if you tell the truth. ‘Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”

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Viv Albertine Quote: “I feel more confident with the posh mums. I’ve found someone who gets me. It’s OK that I don’t fit in here, I fit in somewhere else, so I can relax. I’m not mad, I’m not wrong, I’m just not in the right environment.”

17. “I feel more confident with the posh mums. I’ve found someone who gets me. It’s OK that I don’t fit in here, I fit in somewhere else, so I can relax. I’m not mad, I’m not wrong, I’m just not in the right environment.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I think there’s something very healthy about keeping your own cave clean. It is a good barometer of how your life is going, the state of your home. If it’s a complete tip, you’re taking on too much or depressed; if someone else has to keep it clean for you, it’s too big or you’re too busy.”

18. “I think there’s something very healthy about keeping your own cave clean. It is a good barometer of how your life is going, the state of your home. If it’s a complete tip, you’re taking on too much or depressed; if someone else has to keep it clean for you, it’s too big or you’re too busy.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I hear a phone ringing through the thick fuzzy air. It’s Thunders, asking me to join the Heartbreakers. He says to come over to the rehearsal studios right now. I’m scared but I go anyway. That should be written on my gravestone. She was scared. But she went anyway.”

19. “I hear a phone ringing through the thick fuzzy air. It’s Thunders, asking me to join the Heartbreakers. He says to come over to the rehearsal studios right now. I’m scared but I go anyway. That should be written on my gravestone. She was scared. But she went anyway.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Sometimes my bladder is the only reason I get up. Not even hunger can shift me – the only time I can stand to be hungry is when I’m in bed. I’ve discovered that if I lie still and count to about ninety, the hunger pangs go away. They’re like heartbreak: you just have to acknowledge the pain and wait until it passes.”

20. “Sometimes my bladder is the only reason I get up. Not even hunger can shift me – the only time I can stand to be hungry is when I’m in bed. I’ve discovered that if I lie still and count to about ninety, the hunger pangs go away. They’re like heartbreak: you just have to acknowledge the pain and wait until it passes.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “To sort out a parent’s death is bad enough, but in a foreign country, in a foreign language, it’s daunting. But there’s no one else to do it – my sister lives on the other side of the world – so I take it one step at a time, put one foot in front of the other, and get on with it. If I actually thought about what was ahead, I would panic.”

21. “To sort out a parent’s death is bad enough, but in a foreign country, in a foreign language, it’s daunting. But there’s no one else to do it – my sister lives on the other side of the world – so I take it one step at a time, put one foot in front of the other, and get on with it. If I actually thought about what was ahead, I would panic.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “He’s soaking wet from dancing, all sweaty under his arms. As I lift the hair off the nape of my neck for him to fasten the necklaces, he closes in. Well, this is it, make or break, if I don’t like his smell, this is going nowhere. He smells of good honest sweat, no poncy deodorant for him. He’s a vegetarian so it’s not a meaty, kebabby smell, not overpowering, but strong enough to let me know, here is a man. I like it.”

22. “He’s soaking wet from dancing, all sweaty under his arms. As I lift the hair off the nape of my neck for him to fasten the necklaces, he closes in. Well, this is it, make or break, if I don’t like his smell, this is going nowhere. He smells of good honest sweat, no poncy deodorant for him. He’s a vegetarian so it’s not a meaty, kebabby smell, not overpowering, but strong enough to let me know, here is a man. I like it.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “That’s the trouble with serious illness, and depression, you can’t imagine being well – like on a cold day you can’t imagine warmth – you live in the everlasting dread-filled moment.”

23. “That’s the trouble with serious illness, and depression, you can’t imagine being well – like on a cold day you can’t imagine warmth – you live in the everlasting dread-filled moment.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I can’t imagine what a happy home is like: parents cuddling and laughing, music playing, books on the shelves, discussions round the table? We don’t have any of that, but if Mum’s happy, I’m happy.”

24. “I can’t imagine what a happy home is like: parents cuddling and laughing, music playing, books on the shelves, discussions round the table? We don’t have any of that, but if Mum’s happy, I’m happy.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “But somehow, without me noticing it happening, I became someone who after every failure, rejection and mistake can pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. That life skill, the first one you need, came from my mother. So thanks to her, despite the rest of my upbringing and my awkward personality, I’ve survived.”

25. “But somehow, without me noticing it happening, I became someone who after every failure, rejection and mistake can pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. That life skill, the first one you need, came from my mother. So thanks to her, despite the rest of my upbringing and my awkward personality, I’ve survived.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I thought John was funny, clever and wise. The only problem with him being my muse was that he was so open about his emotions – he wrote and talked about his mother, Yoko, even his aunt, all the time, acknowledging how important women were in his life – so I assumed all boys were like this – and to my huge disappointment, almost none of them were or are.”

26. “I thought John was funny, clever and wise. The only problem with him being my muse was that he was so open about his emotions – he wrote and talked about his mother, Yoko, even his aunt, all the time, acknowledging how important women were in his life – so I assumed all boys were like this – and to my huge disappointment, almost none of them were or are.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “We dressed outrageously, behaved aggressively, and fought every obstacle that came our way with a zeal that would have been impossible at that time in history if we’d had fathers.”

27. “We dressed outrageously, behaved aggressively, and fought every obstacle that came our way with a zeal that would have been impossible at that time in history if we’d had fathers.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Yes, we forgive you, Daddy!′ we chorus. We have to forgive him, we’ve got to see him every day, life’s going to be even more uncomfortable if we don’t forgive him; it’s a matter of survival. We just want everything to be all right, or seem to be all right.”

28. “Yes, we forgive you, Daddy!′ we chorus. We have to forgive him, we’ve got to see him every day, life’s going to be even more uncomfortable if we don’t forgive him; it’s a matter of survival. We just want everything to be all right, or seem to be all right.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I remember what Sid Vicious taught me about fighting: Do the worst thing you can think of first. Except I threatened the worst thing first, ‘If you want to take it outside, let’s take it outside,’ I said, putting the hardest, coldest look I could muster into my eyes. ‘And I’ll put this bottle in your face.’ I picked up an empty bottle of Heineken with such fluidity of movement you’d think I did this sort of thing every day.”

29. “I remember what Sid Vicious taught me about fighting: Do the worst thing you can think of first. Except I threatened the worst thing first, ‘If you want to take it outside, let’s take it outside,’ I said, putting the hardest, coldest look I could muster into my eyes. ‘And I’ll put this bottle in your face.’ I picked up an empty bottle of Heineken with such fluidity of movement you’d think I did this sort of thing every day.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “Then it occurred to me that there are two types of people: those who wait for the whole two lanes of a road to be completely clear before they venture across and those who risk it and charge into the middle, not knowing when they’ll get the chance to make a run for it to the other side. Neither is better than the other. The first one will have fewer problems and fewer adventures, and the second one will have more adventures and make more mistakes.”

30. “Then it occurred to me that there are two types of people: those who wait for the whole two lanes of a road to be completely clear before they venture across and those who risk it and charge into the middle, not knowing when they’ll get the chance to make a run for it to the other side. Neither is better than the other. The first one will have fewer problems and fewer adventures, and the second one will have more adventures and make more mistakes.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.”

31. “There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome.”

32. “I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome.”

— Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine Quote: “I could have dated younger men during the last five years, but lovely as some of them were, I didn’t want to keep wincing inwardly whenever I referred to something that called attention to my age. Or not be able to share the difficulties of growing older, or have to keep explaining references. I’d like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that’s too much to ask, I’ll do without.”

33. “I could have dated younger men during the last five years, but lovely as some of them were, I didn’t want to keep wincing inwardly whenever I referred to something that called attention to my age. Or not be able to share the difficulties of growing older, or have to keep explaining references. I’d like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that’s too much to ask, I’ll do without.”

— Viv Albertine

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