Quotes from Marilyn Manson

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names