Gerard Way Quotes

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they'd have everything sorted out, but I know I don't.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'

Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

You have arms and legs, but don't know what to do with your lives.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I'll have to stick with.