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There are times when even the happiest among us can get overwhelmed and emotional. Emo quotes are useful because they help us articulate the complicated feelings we’re wrestling with, and often naming an emotion is enough for us to begin the process of accepting and moving on. This works because when we put words into the things that we’re feeling, they suddenly become something different, something independent of who we are. It turns the feeling into a thing rather than an innate part of us.
I hope these emo quotes help you navigate whatever it is that you might be facing in your life.
Emo Music Quotes
My hopes are so high,
That your kiss might kill me.
So won’t you kill me,
So I die happy.
My heart is yours to fill or burst,
To break or bury,
Or wear as jewelry,
Whichever you prefer.
— Hands Down, Dashboard Confessional
Hands down this is the best date I can ever remember,
Always remember, the sound of the stereo,
The dim of the soft lights,
The scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers
And the time on the clock when we realized it’s so late
And this walk that we shared together.
The streets were wet and the gate was locked so I jumped it,
And let you in.
And you stood at your door with your hands on my waist
And you kissed me like you meant it.
And I knew that you meant it, that you meant it,
— Hands Down, Dashboard Confessional
Wish cast into the sky
I’m moving on
Sweet beginnings do arise
She knows I was wrong
The notes are old,
They bend, they fold
And so do I to a new love
— Swing, Swing, The All-American Rejects
I’ve become so numb, I can’t feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I’m becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
— Numb, Linkin Park
Can’t you see that you’re smothering me?
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control
‘Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
And every second I waste is more than I can take
— Numb, Linkin Park
Emo Quotes About Feelings
I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion. — Ray Bradbury
It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. — Stephen R. Covey
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that’s just positive tension. — Carrie Fisher
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. — P.D. James
Already I realize certain feelings I was not aware of, like the fear of being hurt. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. — Anaïs Nin
I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt. — Elizabeth Scott
Pardon me, but you really hurt my feelings. — Jay Asher
Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels. — Lady Gaga
Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for it’s consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But Michael, you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor. — Patrick Ness
The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them. ― Michelle Hammersley
We think too much and feel too little. — Charlie Chaplin
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that’s just positive tension. — Carrie Fisher
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. — Virginia Woolf
I know I’m not supposed to care. But when it comes to you, what I’m supposed to be feeling has never seemed to matter. — Penelope Ward
I’d rather feel nothing. It’s better. It’s easier. — Brooke Davis
A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain. — Brit Marling
I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone. — Meg Cabot
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. — Amy Tan
I am furious, nails digging into my palms, tears stinging my eyes. I feel a flash of intense anger. I feel as though something has been taken away from me. — Paula Hawkins
It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late-night show, people were making fun of me. I was really depressed. And because of that, and because my show was cancelled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing. — Ellen Degeneres
Emo Quotes About Depression
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. — J.K. Rowling
I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t. My dear, I don’t give a damn. — Margaret Mitchell
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier. — Sylvia Plath
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy. — J.A. Redmerski
After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone? — Richelle Mead
I stare at accidents in a sick attempt to feel at all. — Unknown
Emo Quotes About Love
Still Love remained — a Love, chastened and sad, with drooping wings and somewhat doubting smile — yet it was Love. — Marie Corelli
My favorite place in the world is wherever you happen to be. ― Unknown
It’s not love’s going that hurts my days. But that it went in little ways. ― Unknown
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings. — David Sedaris
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…
― Dylan Thomas
We’re not too close in distance. We’re not too near in miles. But text can still touch our hearts and thoughts can bring us smiles. ― Unknown
Loved you once, love you still, always have, always will. ― Unknown
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. ― Dylan Thomas
Love is when hurting him would hurt you more. ― Unknown
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting them not to. ― E. Lockhart
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is being able to walk arm in arm even when you don’t see eye to eye. ― Unknown
You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. ― Unknown
Love hurts more than hate. ― Unknown
Explaining why I love is you is like explaining how water tastes: completely impossible. ― Unknown
If you love me, let me know.
If not, please gently let me go.
― Unknown
Emo Quotes About Unrequited Love
You can only push a girl away for so long until she walks out of your life on her own. ― Unknown
She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all. — Rick Yancey
The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies. — Robert Pinsky
You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other’s arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. — Junot Dìaz
The worst thing a guy can do to a girl is to make her fall for him with no intentions of catching her. ― Unknown
You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the centre of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you. — Abby McDonald
Why am I afraid to lose you
when you’re not even mine…
― Unknown
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. — Thomas Hardy
What hurts more than losing you is knowing that you’re not fighting to keep me. ― Unknown
How many times can your heart break until there’s nothing left to be broken? ― Unknown
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ― Maya Angelou
Never make someone your everything because when he leaves, there goes your everything. ― Unknown
Oh, seek my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday
Go take your damned tomorrows.
― Dorothy Parker
Knowing that someone’s wrong for you doesn’t change the way you feel. — Lizzie McGuire
Emo Quotes About Being Alone
When my bed is empty
Makes me feel awful mean and blue
My springs are getting rusty
Living single like I do.
― Unknown
I don’t wanna be alone cause ya know, somewhere inside, I cannot find the feeling I got from you. — Childish Gambino
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. — Eugène Ionesco
Sometimes it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way. ― Unknown
But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. — Junot Dìaz
Emo Quotes About Pain
Tears are words from the heart that can’t be spoken. ― Unknown
I cry for the time
that you were almost mine,
I cry for the memories
I’ve left behind.
I cry for the pain, the lost,
the old, the new,
I cry for the times
I thought I had you.
― Unknown
I’m not crying over what you said; it’s what you didn’t say that hurts the most. ― Unknown
Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can’t always see the pain someone feels. ― Unknown
We never really move on. We just get used to the pain. ― Unknown
Each person’s heart breaks in its own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe. — Erica Bauermeister
Emo Quotes About Life
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ― Norman Cousins
Forget the risk. Take the fall. If it’s meant to be, it’s worth it all. ― Unknown
Life is but a dream for the dead. ― Gerard Way
She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist. ― Amy Efaw
She strikes a pose but she dies inside.
Nobody knows she’s a beautiful suicide.
― Unknown
