27+ Richey Edwards Quotes On Education, Hell And Heaven

Richey Edwards was a Welsh musician best known as the lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He was born in December 1967 in Blackwood, Wales and was a member of the band until his disappearance in February 1995. His disappearance remains unsolved, and he was declared presumed deceased in 2008. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Richey Edwards on leadership, life, education.

Top 10 Richey Edwards Quotes

1. 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
2. I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.
3. We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.
4. I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.
5. Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Richey Edwards Short Quotes

• Everything in life has let me down.
• All rock and roll is homosexual.
• The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.
• We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.
• I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.
• I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.
• I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche
• All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.
• It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
• Love is an impossible concept.

Richey Edwards Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

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. — Richey Edwards

Life Lessons by Richey Edwards

1. Richey Edwards teaches us to be honest and authentic with our art, to be unafraid to express our true feelings and to stand up for what we believe in.
2. His work encourages us to think critically and to challenge the status quo, to be resilient in the face of adversity and to never give up on our dreams.
3. He reminds us that life is precious and that we should make the most of it, to take risks and to never be afraid to be ourselves.