98 Heartfelt Emo Quotes to Express Your Deepest Emotions

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1. “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

Margaret Mitchell Quote: “I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t…My dear, I don’t give a damn.”

2. “Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

– Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne Quote: “Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”

3. “You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think.

– A.A. Milne

A.A. Milne Quote: “You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think.”

4. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

5. “When I wake up in the morning, I just can’t get started until I’ve had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I’ve tried other enemas.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.”

6. “Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels.

– Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Quote: “Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels.”

7. “I gave you my heart, thinking you could mend it, but you just handed it back in pieces.

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “I gave you my heart, thinking you could mend it, but you just handed it back in pieces.”

8. “Why was I born, if just to live in misery

– Noah

Noah Quote: “Why was I born, if just to live in misery”

9. “Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

– Stephen King

Stephen King Quote: “Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

10. “We think too much and feel too little.

– Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin Quote: “We think too much and feel too little.”

11. “Love is like a bandage; when it falls off, it hurts a lot, especially if the wound underneath hasn’t healed.

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “Love is like a bandage; when it falls off, it hurts a lot, especially if the wound underneath hasn’t healed.”

12. “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

– Charles Addams

Charles Addams Quote: “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

13. “You’re always yelling at me! You never listen to me! What about my feelings?!

– John Tucker

John Tucker Quote: “You're always yelling at me! You never listen to me! What about my feelings?!”

14. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

– Carl Jung

Carl Jung Quote: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

15. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

– Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Quote: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

16. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another; ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

– C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis Quote: “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another; ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

17. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

– Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll Quote: “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

18. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quote: “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

19. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.

– Rumi

Rumi Quote: “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”

20. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Quote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

21. “There is something about her eyes. Eyes don’t breathe. I know that much. But hers looked breathless.

– Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson Quote: “There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers looked breathless.”

22. “People always ask me, ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’ Well, I don’t have an alibi.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.”

23. “Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

– Charles Bukowsi

Charles Bukowsi Quote: “Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

24. “Pardon me, but you really hurt my feelings.

– Jay Asher

Jay Asher Quote: “Pardon me, but you really hurt my feelings.”

25. “So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there’d be you.

– Amy Lee

Amy Lee Quote: “So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.”

26. “You know, at parties, people always ask, ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’ Well, I don’t have an alibi!

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!”

27. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

– Mignon Mclaughlin

Mignon Mclaughlin Quote: “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

28. “I realize I look very hip hop but I’m really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

– Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan Quote: “I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.”

29. “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

– Amy Tan

Amy Tan Quote: “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

30. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

– Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins Quote: “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

31. “People come up to me and say, ‘Emo, do people really come up to you?

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?”

32. “How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.”

33. “I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or what I am.

– Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Quote: “I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or what I am.”

34. “The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.

– Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky Quote: “The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.”

35. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

36. “A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain.

– Brit Marling

Brit Marling Quote: “A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain.”

37. “Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”

38. “Do you know what it’s like to wake up in the morning and just hate every inch of yourself?

– Davey Havok

Davey Havok Quote: “Do you know what it’s like to wake up in the morning and just hate every inch of yourself?”

39. “I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don’t know I’m firing blanks.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.”

40. “I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, ‘Here, lady… take your purse.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady... take your purse.”

41. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

– Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins Quote: “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

42. “I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there’s never any gum under any of them.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.”

43. “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone.

– Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Quote: “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.”

44. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

– Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quote: “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”

45. “I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.”

46. “I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, ‘Get off me, you two!

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!”

47. “Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”

48. “I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.”

49. “And there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.

– Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “And there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.”

50. “Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.

– Nicole Sobon

Nicole Sobon Quote: “Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”

51. “I have no interest in emo. I’m all about rap metal.

– Rivers Cuomo

Rivers Cuomo Quote: “I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.”

52. “The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

– Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco Quote: “The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.”

53. “Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

– John Green

John Green Quote: “Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

54. “If I’m too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

– John Green

John Green Quote: “If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!”

55. “In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.”

56. “Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.”

57. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

– Elisabeth Foley

Elisabeth Foley Quote: “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

58. “Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?”

59. “Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.”

60. “I’d rather feel nothing. It’s better. It’s easier.

– Brooke Davis

Brooke Davis Quote: “I'd rather feel nothing. It's better. It's easier.”

61. “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

– P.D. James

P.D. James Quote: “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”

62. “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. Because honestly, it would’ve saved me so much hurt and pain.

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. Because honestly, it would’ve saved me so much hurt and pain.”

63. “I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!”

64. “Go take your damned tomorrows.

– Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker Quote: “Go take your damned tomorrows.”

65. “But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

– Junot Dìaz

Junot Dìaz Quote: “But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

66. “The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.”

67. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

– Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey Quote: “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

68. “I don’t wanna be alone cause ya know, somewhere inside, I cannot find the feeling I got from you.

– Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino Quote: “I don’t wanna be alone cause ya know, somewhere inside, I cannot find the feeling I got from you.”

69. “The sky isn’t always blue. The sun doesn’t always shine. It’s okay to fall apart sometimes.

– Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams Quote: “The sky isn’t always blue. The sun doesn’t always shine. It’s okay to fall apart sometimes.”

70. “Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said; ‘A truck!

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said; 'A truck!”

71. “Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

– Kevin Hearne

Kevin Hearne Quote: “Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.”

72. “I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.”

73. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.

– Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur Quote: “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.”

74. “The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.

– Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick Quote: “The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.”

75. “England is better only because I stand out there as ‘unusual’.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.”

76. “I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I’ll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

– Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quote: “I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

77. “Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.

– Mikey Way

Mikey Way Quote: “Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.”

78. “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

– Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”

79. “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

– Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Quote: “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

80. “You’d still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.

– Junot Dìaz

Junot Dìaz Quote: “You'd still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.”

81. “I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.”

82. “Sometimes I wish I could fast forward time just to see if in the end it’s all worth it.

– Rihanna

Rihanna Quote: “Sometimes I wish I could fast forward time just to see if in the end it’s all worth it.”

83. “The worst kind of sadness is not being able to explain why.

– Gerard Way

Gerard Way Quote: “The worst kind of sadness is not being able to explain why.”

84. “Probably the toughest time in anyone’s life is when you have to murder a loved one because they’re the devil.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”

85. “I’m a great lover, I’ll bet.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “I'm a great lover, I'll bet.”

86. “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

Thomas Hardy Quote: “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.”

87. “Don’t you ever feel like you’re only alive when you’re breaking down?

– Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams Quote: “Don’t you ever feel like you’re only alive when you’re breaking down?”

88. “The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

– William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Quote: “The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.”

89. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

90. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

– Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell Quote: “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

91. “My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

– Emo Philips

Emo Philips Quote: “My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.”

92. “I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt.

– Elizabeth Scott

Elizabeth Scott Quote: “I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt.”

93. “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

– Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti Quote: “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

94. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more.

– Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean Quote: “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more.”

95. “Knowing that someone’s wrong for you doesn’t change the way you feel.

– Lizzie Mcguire

Lizzie Mcguire Quote: “Knowing that someone's wrong for you doesn't change the way you feel.”

96. “Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

– Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.”

97. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

– Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou Quote: “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

98. “After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone?

– Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead Quote: “After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone?”
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