Richey Edwards Quotes

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

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Thinking, People, Judging

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I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

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Regret, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

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Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

"Song:"Faster" ("The Holy Bible")". 1994.

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People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice anything. They don’t care about what people think of them. When you hate yourself, whatever people say it doesn’t make sense. ‘Why do they like me? Why do they care about me?’ Because you don’t care about yourself at all.

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Hate, Thinking, People

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The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

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Baby, Fear, Eye

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We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

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Beautiful, Pissed Off, World

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You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.

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Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

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Crush, People, Want

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It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

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Self Harm, Thinking, Knowing

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When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

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Depression, Pain, Cutting

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When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

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Book, Thinking, Bottles

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I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

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Loneliness, Rage, Childlike

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Love is an impossible concept.

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Love Is, Impossible, Concepts

"Sweet exile" by Caroline Sullivan, Alex Bellos, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 1995.

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It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

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Past, Important, Contradiction

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There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.

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Kids, Ideas, White

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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

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Fear, Europe, Barbie

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It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

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Hurt, Cutting, Frustration

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Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

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Self, Abuse, Natural

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Everything in life has let me down.

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Let Me, Let Me Down

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On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

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Party, Believe, Mean

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All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

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Past, Want, Can Do

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I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

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Depression, Hurt, Teenager

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We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

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Hate

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I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.

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Cutting, Self Injury, Attractive

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In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

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Pain, Mind, Stronger

"Manic's Depressive". NME, October 1, 1994.

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Born: December 22, 1967
Died: November 23, 2008
Occupation: Musician
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