Top 100 Quotes About Emo
#1. When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
Bert McCracken
#2. I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
- Emo Phillips
Stella Atrium
#3. Between the suit and the pinkish hair, he looks like an emo gangster.
A.G. Howard
#4. Could it be that Cania isn't the ultimate prep school, isn't the sure way into the Ivy League? As if to solidify my suspicion, a guy with emo eyeliner tells his ill-fated story.
Anonymous
#5. Eve: Shut up, we have zero time for you and your bullshit dramatics
Monica: Or what, you'll bleed on me, Emo Princess of Freakdomonia?
Claire: Fine. You come with us. If you get in my way, I'll kill you.
Rachel Caine
#6. Future's Pluto is my favorite album of the year. It's so emo. Future is the number one dude I'd love to produce for - every time I listen to the song he did with Rihanna, "Loveeeeeee Song", I'm like, "I should have produced that."
Ryan Hemsworth
#7. Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
John Green
#8. When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.
Emo Philips
#9. People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'
Emo Philips
#10. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be ... ' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
Constance Wu
#11. I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
Jim Gaffigan
#12. I can't believe I'm being so emo. I'm complaining to a girl who was brutally murdered at sixteen.
Kendare Blake
#13. No matter how much you care about a person, you have to be able to know that you can sit down at night and be happy with who you are without that person. That's really hard when you're a lonely emo kid.
Justin Vernon
#14. Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.
Sufjan Stevens
#15. Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
Kevin Hearne
#16. Anyone who remembered the grim, gun-toting, thug-murdering Batman of 1939 could see that he'd become a fundamentally different guy: a grinning, lantern-jawed, wisecracking adventure hero who'd left that emo "creature of the night" shtick far behind.
Glen Weldon
#17. My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.
Emo Philips
#18. Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.
Frank Iero
#19. I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.
Rivers Cuomo
#20. Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
Libba Bray
#21. I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
Debby Ryan
#22. I'd been labelled a goth, an emo, a druggie, a loser, and my personal favorite only because it showed just how ignorant people were: a freak.
Nicole Williams
#23. As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way - so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!
Daniel C. Dennett
#24. Derek was in good shape, not just for a man his age but for any man. So maybe he wouldn't be able to get away with wearing skinny jeans, but that didn't matter. Those were for emo kids, hipsters, and twinks and should be outlawed for over thirties anyway
Lisa Henry
#25. I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'
Jenny Lewis
#26. Yeah. I like Chopin. I feel like Chopin is 'emo.' Do you like Chopin?
Tao Lin
#27. I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake ... I have a pretty diverse collection.
Kendall Schmidt
#28. Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.
Mikey Way
#29. 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
#30. Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.
Meg Rosoff
#31. 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
#32. He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.
Marjorie M. Liu
#33. One of the cashiers had taken to calling out, "Hey, Clark!" as I came in and marking my exit with "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperGoth!" This was not only tiresome but inaccurate. There's a huge difference between goth and emo, but I never had the time or energy to give him a tutorial.
Elise Allen
#34. Emo is over, you can all go home now
Pete Wentz
#36. I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!
Gerard Way
#37. I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.
Kiese Laymon
#38. Don't get all gothic and emo on me now. - Tory
Matthew Leeth
#39. I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.
Nick Kroll
#40. Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
Andy Greenwald
#41. So people keep asking me what this badge is for ... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!
Gerard Way
#42. Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.
Corey Taylor
#43. I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.
Julie Klausner
#44. We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!
Alan Vega
#45. Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people - Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.
Andy Greenwald
#46. Everything I think I can't say 'cause it'd come out fucking emo, like, if I were to say what I've been thinking all day, every day: I don't know if I can go on like this forever; or, I'm also always thinking, it shouldn't be this hard just to have a brain. Everyone has a brain.
Elissa Washuta
#47. I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
Tara Lynne Barr
#48. I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
Craig Thompson
#49. They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.
Emo Philips
#50. So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.
Charlie Benante
#51. I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.
Emo Philips
#52. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.
Gena Showalter
#53. All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.
Emo Philips
#54. Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.
Emo Philips
#55. I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips
#56. I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
Emo Philips
#57. A Mormon told me that they don't drink coffee. I said, "A cup of coffee every day gives you wonderful benefits." He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, it keeps you from being Mormon ... "
Emo Philips
#58. Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
Emo Philips
#59. I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips
#60. You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers ... damn anthropologists.
Emo Philips
#61. My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know ... You break it, you buy it.
Emo Philips
#62. Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.
Emo Philips
#63. My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.
Emo Philips
#64. I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.
Emo Philips
#65. They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
Emo Philips
#66. I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.
Emo Philips
#67. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.
Alexia Chase
#68. I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.
Emo Philips
#69. I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.
Emo Philips
#70. I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like a saxophonist's instrument is his saxophone, plus also his voice, if he's the one between tunes that makes announcements.
Emo Philips
#71. I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
Emo Philips
#72. Some mornings it's just not worth it to chew through the leather straps.
Emo Philips
#73. Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.
Emo Philips
#74. I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
Emo Philips
#75. I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!
Emo Philips
#76. Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?
Emo Philips
#77. I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.
Emo Philips
#78. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
#79. Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.
Emo Philips
#80. I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
Emo Philips
#81. 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
#82. When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.
Emo Philips
#83. Never judge someone until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do judge him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes.
Emo Philips
#84. In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.
Emo Philips
#85. I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.
Emo Philips
#86. I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.
Emo Philips
#87. 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
#88. You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!
Emo Philips
#89. I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.
Emo Philips
#90. I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.
Laure Eve
#91. England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Emo Philips
#92. Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.
Emo Philips
#93. 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
#94. When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.
Emo Philips
#95. I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.
Emo Philips
#96. Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Philips
#97. Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.
Emo Philips
#98. I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.
Emo Philips
#99. Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
Emo Philips
#100. I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes "Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen."
Emo Philips
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