Quotes from Emilie Autumn

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

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

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.

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

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

Once upon a time is now.

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

And falling's just another way to fly.

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

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

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

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

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

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?

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

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

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.