Steven Morrissey Quotes - Page 3

Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

I hated the royal wedding.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

America is not the world.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

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.

Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

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

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.