141 Emo Quotes to Get You Through Life’s Roughest Patches

Need a little pick-me-up? Check out these 141+ emo quotes to help you get through life’s rough patches! This collection of emo quotes is perfect for when you need a little encouragement. So if you’re feeling down, browse through this list of emo quotes and let them lift your spirits!

Emo Quotes

1. “Love hurts more than hate.” – Unknown
2. “Life is but a dream for the dead.” ― Gerard Way
3. “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.” – Sylvia Plath
4. “i wear black got dem boots nothing more to say” ― Hailie
5. “I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt.” – Elizabeth Scott
6. “Pardon me, but you really hurt my feelings.” – Jay Asher
7. “Love is when hurting him would hurt you more.” – Unknown
8. “The view on life isn’t just change , but time” ― emo star
9. “We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin
10. “Tears are words from the heart that can’t be spoken.” – Unknown
11. “I stare at accidents in a sick attempt to feel at all.” – Unknown
12. “We never really move on. We just get used to the pain.” – Unknown
13. “Until it happens to you, you won’t know how it feels.” – Lady Gaga
14. “I’d rather feel nothing. It’s better. It’s easier.” – Brooke Davis
15. “The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.” – Robert Pinsky
16. “Why am I afraid to lose you when you’re not even mine…” – Unknown
17. “Loved you once, love you still, always have, always will.” – Unknown
18. “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.” – Virginia Woolf
19. “My favorite place in the world is wherever you happen to be.” – Unknown
20. “A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain.” – Brit Marling
21. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
22. “If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.” – Unknown
23. “Being emo is both the best and worst thing that has happened to me” ― MEE
24. “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.” – Amy Tan
25. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way.” – Unknown
26. “The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.” – Eugène Ionesco
27. “Forget the risk. Take the fall. If it’s meant to be, it’s worth it all.” – Unknown

Emo Quotes About Love

1. “Love is being able to walk arm in arm even when you don’t see eye to eye.” – Unknown
2. “It’s not love’s going that hurts my days. But that it went in little ways.” – Unknown
3. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option..” – Maya Angelou
4. “Some mornings it’s just not worth it to chew through the leather straps.” ― Emo Philips
5. “The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.” – Michelle Hammersley
6. “After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone?” – Richelle Mead
7. “Knowing that someone’s wrong for you doesn’t change the way you feel.” – Lizzie McGuire
8. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas
9. “Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting them not to.” – E. Lockhart
10. “How many times can your heart break until there’s nothing left to be broken?.” – Unknown
11. “And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” – Dylan Thomas
12. “I’m sorry for breaking down when I should’ve been stitching myself back up” ― Real Friends
13. “You really fucked me up this time for good, even though you didn’t mean to” ― Real Friends
14. “she…let the blood spill down instead of tears.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
15. “What hurts more than losing you is knowing that you’re not fighting to keep me.” – Unknown
16. “She strikes a pose but she dies inside. Nobody knows she’s a beautiful suicide.” – Unknown
17. “What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your ‘bootless cries’?” ― Solange nicole
18. “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown
19. “I’m not crying over what you said; it’s what you didn’t say that hurts the most.” – Unknown
20. “So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?” ― Gerard Way
21. “Between the suit and the pinkish hair, he looks like an emo gangster.” ― A.G. Howard, Splintered
22. “I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone.” – Meg Cabot
23. “You can only push a girl away for so long until she walks out of your life on her own.” – Unknown
24. “Never make someone your everything because when he leaves, there goes your everything.” – Unknown

Emo Quotes About Life

1. “Explaining why I love is you is like explaining how water tastes: completely impossible.” – Unknown
2. “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize they made shoes for emo ballerinas!” ― Jacqueline E. Smith, Shipwreck Girl
3. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” – Stephen R. Covey
4. “Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can’t always see the pain someone feels.” – Unknown
5. “And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” ― Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems
6. “for every dream shattered another comes true, but when my dreams are broken yours are broken too.” ― batman
7. “Jon itu pemuda ber-IQ tinggi, dengan EQ jongkok, dan SQ tiarap.” ― Adham T. Fusama, Dead Smokers Club Part 1
8. “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.” – P.D. James
9. “But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.” – Junot Dìaz
10. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
11. “Every time I start trusting someone, they show me why I shouldn’t.” – Unknown
12. “It sucks when you realize how much you mean to someone, and how little you mean to them.” – Unknown
13. “Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus; the tighter you hold on, the more it hurts.” – Unknown
14. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re just a trigger. I’m crying because my heart remembers how it used to feel to be loved.” – Unknown
15. “I don’t need someone who promised me the moon and the stars. I need someone who promised me that they’ll stand by me through thick and thin.” – Unknown
16. “It’s better to be alone than to be with someone who makes you feel alone.” – Unknown
17. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
18. “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” – Oscar Wilde
19. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
20. “There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.” – Unknown

Funny Emo Quotes

1. “I’m not emo, I just appreciate black.” – Unknown
2. “Emo phase? I thought this was called life?” – Unknown
3. “I’m not emo, but this playlist makes me feel like it.” – Unknown
4. “People who are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.” – Dan Quayle
5. “I’m not emo, I just like tight jeans and depressing music.” – Unknown
6. “The only difference between emo and normal people is that emo have better hair.” – Unknown
7. “Sarcasm―The witty will have fun, but the stupid won’t get it.” ― Unknown
8. “I wasn’t born a princess.. but if the crown fits…” ― Unknown
9. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ― William Shakespeare
10. “I love being emo. It makes me feel so special inside. Like a big, giant, sparkly unicorn.” ― Unknown
11. “Emo is not a phase; it’s who I am.” – Unknown
12. “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” ― Groucho Marx
13. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” ― Erma Bombeck

Sad Emo Quotes

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
2. “Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.” ― John Green, Paper Towns
3. “I was pure and good. I loved it that they couldn’t understand how profound I was.” ― Ian McEwan, The Children Act
4. “The worst thing a guy can do to a girl is to make her fall for him with no intentions of catching her.” – Unknown
5. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
6. “Yeah. I like Chopin. I feel like Chopin is ‘emo.’ Do you like Chopin?” ― Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel
7. “I don’t wanna be alone cause ya know, somewhere inside, I cannot find the feeling I got from you.” – Childish Gambino
8. “Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It’s Harmonizing my Insanity” ― Whitney Smith
9. “When my bed is empty Makes me feel awful mean and blue My springs are getting rusty Living single like I do.” – Unknown
10. “She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all.” – Rick Yancey
11. “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
12. “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
13. “Still Love remained” – a Love, chastened and sad, with drooping wings and somewhat doubting smile” – yet it was Love.” – Marie Corelli
14. “I know I’m not supposed to care. But when it comes to you, what I’m supposed to be feeling has never seemed to matter.” – Penelope Ward
15. “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” – David Sedaris
16. “Oh, seek my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday Go take your damned tomorrows.” ― Dorothy Parker
17. “We’re not too close in distance. We’re not too near in miles. But text can still touch our hearts and thoughts can bring us smiles.” – Unknown
18. “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
19. “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
20. “Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes see nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know…” ― Oscar Wilde
21. “I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had to happen.” ― Laure Eve, The Graces
22. “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
23. “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
24. “Jon itu ibarat harimau yang terkurung aman di kandang. Kevin-lah kandangnya. Kita doakan saja harimau itu tidak akan pernah lepas.” ― Adham T. Fusama, Dead Smokers Club Part 1
25. “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
26. “There was nothing to be made of us intellectuals. We were a superfluous, irresponsible lot of talented chatterboxes for whom reality had no meaning.” ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
27. “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
28. “She said Mom closed up the house one day, turned the oven on full, and sat by its open door. Apparently, it’s still a Cry For Help, even though our oven’s electric.” ― D.B.C. Pierre
29. “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
30. “Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn’t mean I’m going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.” ― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
31. “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
32. “I cry for the time that you were almost mine, I cry for the memories I’ve left behind. I cry for the pain, the lost, the old, the new, I cry for the times I thought I had you.” – Unknown
33. “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
34. “Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me ’cause im telling you the truth I mean this is okay Trust me… I’m not okay …Well okay I’m not okay. I’m not o-f cking-kay” ― Gerard Way
35. “You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.” – Abby McDonald
36. “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
37. “You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other’s arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.” – Junot Dìaz
38. “I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.” ― Laure Eve, The Graces
39. “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
40. “I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn’t let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinyl record, a stutter.” ― Leila Aboulela, Minaret
41. “Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling has grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But Michael, you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.” – Patrick Ness
42. “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, All the Better Part of Me
43. “It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late-night show, people were making fun of me. I was really depressed. And because of that, and because my show was canceled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing.” – Ellen Degeneres
44. “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
45. “Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – J.K. Rowling
46. “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, Escape
47. “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, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)” ― Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found
48. “Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it…just put your heart and soul into all that you do…then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel.” -Nina Jean Slack” ― Nina Jean Slack
49. “What foolishness it is to desire more life after one has tasted A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day, Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen. Death is the end of all. Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.” ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
50. “Honestly, I’d rather be anywhere else. Even at 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 Showalter
51. “Let me set it straight, I’ve done some shit, And maybe I ain’t too proud of it The monster in your bed You were begging me “please don’t stop!” Said that I’m a douchebag, won’t call back The worst hangover you ever had Felt so good at first, you knew that it could never last Wanna wash the dirt off my hands, wanna get this all off my chest But I’m no good at saying sorry… Woah oh! I didn’t mean to fuck you over, I just want to have some fun” ― The Summer Set
52. “She paints a pretty picture, but the story has a twist Her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. She paints a pretty picture in a color that’s blood red. While using her sharp paintbrush, she ends up finally dead. The pretty picture is fading quite slowly on her arm. Blood no longer runs through her, she can no longer do harm. 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
53. “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, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)” ― Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found
54. “it was an 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, Lighthouse Nights
55. “Stars are everything and nothing that we think they are. They are their own world, but through an act of will we make them part of ours. They are the diamonds of the gods, the lights at a stadium where angels play a midnight game of baseball. They’re fairy farts that have been set ablaze! Mostly, they’re just an untouchable beauty that’s so far away, it’s the only place safe enough to store our secret hopes and dreams. When we see a shooting start, we all make a wish. But what nobody admits is how afraid they are of actually catching something that fell from heaven. I’m not afraid to burn. ~Hadrian” ― J.M. Evans
56. “So it’s back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other day, Had a real foretaste of eternity In my guts. Spoonfeeding me yet another sip from life’s cup. I don’t want it, won’t take any more of it. Let me throw up. Life is medium rare and good, I see, And the world full of soup and bread, But it won’t pass into the blood for me, Just goes to my head. It makes me ill, though others it feeds; Do see that I must deny it! For a thousand years from now at least I’m keeping a diet.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary and Compact Biography
57. “Creatures of the Darkness BY VICKI JORDAN It was world of vampires and demons, where innocence was rare and so were the living. It was a world of darkness, where light had been outlawed and nightfall had swallowed us whole. An epic war had been fought, and the creatures of the dark had finally prevailed over the promoters of the light. Finally, for the first time in existence, the people of the shadows could come out and freely walk among one another in the rays of the dying sun, which had once been used to shun them away. A little girl, a child of the light, had survived the battle and crawled out from under the ashes of the destruction. She looked around at her altered world in dismay and confronted a vampire about the changes, of which she did not approve. “Why did you turn my world into a world of night, and make wrong into a new form of right? How could you make all the light disappear, and with it everyone I once loved so dear? Why are the shadows now the new sun, and why is everything lost what you have won?” The vampire looked down at the little girl with amusement and delight. “Because, little girl, this is the real world you see, where there’s no light to shine on false identities. We didn’t destroy the world just to scare; we simply uncovered what was already there. What has come out was all the darkness that was once hidden within, and you’ll soon meet the darkness in you once my fangs pierce your skin.” We are our own greatest fears…..” ― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal
58. “Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don’t realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they’ve reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives. You can’t blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.” ― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS

Wrapping Up

These 141 emo quotes should help get you through life’s rough patches. No matter what you’re going through, know that you’re not alone and that others have gone through similar struggles. If you need more support, consider talking to a therapist or counselor. You deserve to be happy and live a life that feels good to you.