140 Insightful Quotes By Gerard Way That You Must Not Overlook

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

Me , Never

  

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

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It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

  

You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

Music

  

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

Think

  

There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...

Trying

  

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Music

  

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

Like , Never , Yourself

  

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

Music , Singing

  

We’ve always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we’ll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don’t look to go round it. We just bust straight through.

  

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.

  

There's such a lack of sex in music.

Music

  

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

Life , Music

  

I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too.

  

It is not a band. It is an idea.

  

When you are kissing a guy with a beard, it's different.

  

Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me.

Me

  

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

  

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

  

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

  

I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

Me , Trying

  

It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.

Me

  

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

  

All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.

  

The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell.

  

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

Me

  

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

  

No matter what anyone says, dont take their F**king Bulls**t. Coz you're better then them, faster than them and god damn it, YOU'RE MUCH BETTER LOOKING!!

  

Sing, that's the most powerful weapon you have.

  

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

Me

  

Never forget how beautiful you are.

Never

  

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

Never

  

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

  

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

  

You can do amazing things when you believe.

  

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Life , Music

  

Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

Family

  

I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.

Life

  

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

Me

  

Real revenge is making something of yourself.

Yourself

  

Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.

Me

  

If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help.

  

Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.

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I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!

  

None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness.

Think

  

I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!

  

I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.

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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.

Me

  

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Never , Think

  

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function

Like , Me

  

People don't know if i'm gay, straight or an alien from outer space.. its funny

  

You have to destroy something to make it beautiful.

  

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

  

Tears are words the heart can't express

  

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

Never , Yourself

  

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

  

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

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NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

Life , Yourself

  

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

  

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Never , Yourself

  

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

  

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!

Me

  

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.

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Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

Life , Yourself

  

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

Life

  

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Life

  

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Me

  

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

  

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

  

My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

Never

  

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

Family , Like , Never

  

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

  

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

Me

  

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

Me , Music

  

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Life

  

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

Music

  

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

  

I love Alfonso Cuaron.

  

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

Me

  

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

  

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Like , Think

  

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

  

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

  

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

  

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

  

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

  

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

Life , Like

  

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

  

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Never

  

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

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I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

  

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

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When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

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I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.

Me

  

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

Life

  

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

  

A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.

Like , Me

  

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

Life , Like , Me

  

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

  

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

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