Top 300 Marilyn Manson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?”

— Marilyn Manson

52. “When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, ‘Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?’ And I’m like, ‘Both’”

— Marilyn Manson

53. “Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

— Marilyn Manson

54. “The idea of heaven is Christianity’s way of creating a hell on earth.”

— Marilyn Manson

55. “I’m chaos, I’ve always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.”

— Marilyn Manson

56. “I think it’s the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you’re a person that matters.”

— Marilyn Manson

57. “If you lose who you are, what do you have?”

— Marilyn Manson

58. “Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.”

— Marilyn Manson

59. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

60. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

61. “I’m kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That’s how I get out my shyness.”

— Marilyn Manson

62. “If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it’s going to change, so they ruin it themselves.”

— Marilyn Manson

63. “In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.”

— Marilyn Manson

64. “The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.”

— Marilyn Manson

65. “My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you’ve got the ability to believe.”

— Marilyn Manson

66. “Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun.”

— Marilyn Manson

67. “Enjoy your faults, that’s what separates you from the rest of the world.”

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

69. “Sell your soul to yourself. You’ll make more money.”

— Marilyn Manson

70. “Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.”

— Marilyn Manson

71. “Marriage changes everything.”

— Marilyn Manson

72. “Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.”

— Marilyn Manson

73. “I’m tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It’s kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he’d be worshipping me, because I’m more successful than he is.”

— Marilyn Manson

74. “Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.”

— Marilyn Manson

75. “I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.”

— Marilyn Manson

76. “I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn’t fire me because I was the only person they had working there.”

— Marilyn Manson

77. “I speak in reality. I don’t try to hide anything from anybody, and that’s the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.”

— Marilyn Manson

78. “Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either.”

— Marilyn Manson

79. “The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at.”

— Marilyn Manson

80. “There’s no reason to change what you are, but if you’re not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.”

— Marilyn Manson

81. “There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers.”

— Marilyn Manson

82. “To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren’t what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.”

— Marilyn Manson

83. “Do not seek death, seek destruction.”

— Marilyn Manson

84. “It says right here you’ve got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you’ve only got to be yourself to go to hell.”

— Marilyn Manson

85. “I wish that my life could be like the movies, like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ or ‘The Hunger’ or ‘Harold and Maude.’ And it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.”

— Marilyn Manson

86. “A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.”

— Marilyn Manson

87. “I don’t want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that’s the only way to go out.”

— Marilyn Manson

88. “My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.”

— Marilyn Manson

89. “That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself.”

— Marilyn Manson

90. “I don’t want to feel like I’ve matured. That’s a stupid word that I never want to use.”

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

92. “If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God – and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can’t see God wanting to create a world full of idiots.”

— Marilyn Manson

93. “The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.”

— Marilyn Manson

94. “They’ll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.”

— Marilyn Manson

95. “There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don’t understand, and lash out against it.”

— Marilyn Manson

96. “If I were in a room full of people, I’d rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.”

— Marilyn Manson

97. “Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I’ve become. I’ve taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I’ve become those things.”

— Marilyn Manson

98. “When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.”

— Marilyn Manson

99. “I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won’t do, I will.”

— Marilyn Manson

100. “My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals.”

— Marilyn Manson