If there’s one thing I’m immensely proud of, it’s the fact that I’m never ashamed of my own emotions.
That’s why I’ve decided to share with you my collection of the deepest and most relatable emo quotes I gathered from various online sources!
As you’ll see, it brings you 70 unique perspectives from different authors.
Let’s get started!
Top 10 Emo Quotes
1. “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.” — Sylvia Plath
2. “I stopped fighting my inner demons. We are on the same side now.” ― Darynda Jones
3. “Life is but a dream for the dead.” ― Gerard Way
4. “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.” — P.D. James
5. “Scars remind me that the past is real.” ― Papa Roach
6. “Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.” ― Jimmy Sullivan
7. “When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.“ ― Alice in Wonderland
8. “A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain.” — Brit Marling
9. “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
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10. “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” ― Samuel Johnson
Emo Quotes On Pain & Feelings
1. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ― Khalil Gibran
2. “My feelings? Oh, don’t worry about those, no one else does.” — Unknown
3. “Sorry if I’m slow. Opening up to people is not a skill of mine.” — Kiera Cass
4. “We know too much, and feel too little.” — Bertrand Russell
5. “You’re always yelling at me! You never listen to me! What about my feelings?!” — John Tucker
6. “Pardon me, but you really hurt my feelings.” ― Jay Asher
7. “I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.” — Margaret Atwood
8. “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.” — Virginia Woolf
9. “I felt very tired and vague in the head.” — Ernest Hemingway
10. “I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt.” — Elizabeth Scott
Deep Emo Quotes
1. “We are our own greatest fears.” ― Chris Colfer
2. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” ― Stephen R. Covey
3. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― Jose N Harris
4. “I’d rather feel nothing. It’s better. It’s easier.” ― Brooke Davis
5. “Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels.” — Lady GaGa
6. ”I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” ― Nana Mouskouri
7. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ― William Shakespeare
8. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “The soul lives there in the silent breath.” ― Rumi
10. “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.” ― Victor Hugo
Emo Quotes You Can Identify With
1. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ― Norman Cousins
2. “I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” ― Nana Mouskouri
3. “But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.” — Junot Dìaz
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4. “How many times can your heart break until there’s nothing left to be broken?” ― Unknown
5. “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone.” — Meg Cabot
6. “We think too much and feel too little.” — Charlie Chaplin
7. “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
8. “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
9. “When all you got is these four walls, it’s not hard to feel so small.” — Sleeping With Sirens
10. “Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can’t always see the pain someone feels.” ― Lisa French
Heartbreaking Emo Quotes
1. “Don’t mind me. I’ll just sit here, crying over yesterday.” ― P.M. Harrison
2. “After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone?” — Richelle Mead
3. “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
4. “Tears are words from the heart that can’t be spoken.” ― Unknown
5. “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
6. “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
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7. “Honestly, I’d rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, “You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color.” Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma’s insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn’t appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That’s color, right?” ― Gena Showwalter
8. “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
9. “Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached in his pocket and grabbed a pack of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds which were his favorites, and he lit one up. He was dressed all in black; black skinny jeans, black studded belt, black tennis shoes, black v neck shirt and he had the hood of his black jacket up over his head. He looked cool and collected, and somewhat villainous.” ― Nina Jean Slack
10. “There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.” ― Unknown
Sad Emo Quotes
1. “It’s just a relief, really. I’m scared to die, but I want to die.” ― Lana Del Rey
2. “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.” — Amy Tan
3. “There is something about her eyes. Eyes don’t breathe. I know that much. But hers looked breathless.” — Mary E. Pearson
4. “The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.” — Eugène Ionesco
5. “The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.” — Robert Pinsky
6. “It was unmatched life experience that bestowed in her eyes the sultry gleam that separates women from girls. although she viewed her “life experience” like bruises on a peach, men of all ages still found ways to see past the indications of damaged goods long enough to offer her a drink. hell, it was less than an hour ago that one such man called her “gothic perfection” and cried on her shoulder. her boyfriend agreed that a crazy life can “grow a girl up quick”; it was only last november that she turned seventeen.” ― Jake Vander Ark
7. “If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained…when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you…just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told.” ― Nina Jean Slack
8. “I was in a black cloud around that time. Sometimes I think I have a bit of a gray cloud, at least, that still follows me around. I know people’s parents get divorced, and every teenager is practically required to go through a stage where they shop at Hot Topic and say things like You laugh because I’m different, but I laugh because you’re all the same.” ― Alicia Thompson
9. “I turned my bedroom into a bat-cave of band posters, dark curtains, and the occasional skull. I think by now my distraught parents were seeking advice from their pastor. Andy, meanwhile, calmly remarked, “I like how you’ve found a way to use Halloween decorations year-round.” ― Molly Ringle
10. “I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile and it didn’t take everything in me to do it.” ― Unknown
Comforting Emo Quotes
1. “Being emo is both the best and worst thing that has happened to me.” ― MEE
2. “Yes, she painted a pretty picture but the story has a twist, you see, her mind was her razor, and her heart was her wrist.” ― Oliver Gray
3. “I’m sorry for breaking down when I should’ve been stitching myself back up” ― Real Friends
4. “You used to make me feel like I could walk on water, now most nights I’m just sinking down and down. You’re the reason why I can’t listen to the same songs I used to.”― Real Friends
5. “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 Showwalter
6. “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, After
7. “I spend my nights thinking the worst, and telling myself that everything’s going to work out. I keep kicking myself in the mouth, opening up every cut that should be a scar by now.” ― Real friends
8. “She wasn’t soft or pretty; she was hard-edged and cold, like one of those cold bronze statues surrounded by high fences and crowned in razor wire. Don’t touch me, such defenses said, but it wasn’t enough to halt a breach, no. She had thought people only picked the soft-petaled, sweet-smelling flowers, but some people took thorns as a challenge.” ― Nenia Campbell
9. “Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don’t care, deep inside, you care.” ― Zoey-Rose Hawthorne
10. “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” – Tabitha Suzuma
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