Emilie Autumn Quotes & Sayings

#1. There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

#2. Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

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#3. I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed.

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#4. Once upon a time is now.

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#5. I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

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#6. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me ...

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#7. I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

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#8. EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla?
Audience: Yeah.
EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.

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#9. Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

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#10. Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

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#11. It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die?

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#12. Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ...

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#13. It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

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#14. Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru
well, unavailable.

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#15. I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

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#16. For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

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#17. Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...

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#18. My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

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#19. Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

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#20. I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

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#21. And falling's just another way to fly.

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#22. We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human

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#23. Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

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#24. We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.

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#25. If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.

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#26. He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

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#27. Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And ... look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find me wholesome enough? Am I fuckable? Is he allergic to feathers?!

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#28. I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

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#29. If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.

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#30. I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

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#31. Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

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#32. You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

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#33. I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

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#34. If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

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#35. What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

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#36. What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

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#37. Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

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#38. Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you.

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#39. If that happens again someone's gonna get shot ... with an arrow of love!

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#40. You young romantics find your "soul" in the strangest places.

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#41. Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

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#42. I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

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#43. There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

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#44. Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be

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#45. I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

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#46. History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

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#47. I'm a big stupid history nerd.

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#48. And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl.

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#49. Studies show that intelligent girls are more depressed because they know the world.

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#50. I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

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#51. I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

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