Top 300 Marilyn Manson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I try and take everyone’s ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you’re not always taking things for granted.”

— Marilyn Manson

102. “The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.”

— Marilyn Manson

103. “From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.”

— Marilyn Manson

104. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.”

— Marilyn Manson

105. “In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.”

— Marilyn Manson

106. “Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.”

— Marilyn Manson

107. “I am the ism, my hate’s a prism.”

— Marilyn Manson

108. “Everything is acting.”

— Marilyn Manson

109. “People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is “beat up your mom” music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you’d have to listen.”

— Marilyn Manson

110. “I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.”

— Marilyn Manson

111. “I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.”

— Marilyn Manson

112. “This is the golden age of grotesque.”

— Marilyn Manson

113. “Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.”

— Marilyn Manson

114. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

115. “It’s my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.”

— Marilyn Manson

116. “Anyone who thinks they’re happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.”

— Marilyn Manson

117. “The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.”

— Marilyn Manson

118. “The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.”

— Marilyn Manson

119. “It’s shocking to me that it’s easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.”

— Marilyn Manson

120. “Just remember when you think you’re free, the crack in your heart is me.”

— Marilyn Manson

121. “I’ve never written songs about relationships. I’ve written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That’s the way I like to look at it.”

— Marilyn Manson

122. “I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.”

— Marilyn Manson

123. “The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn’t have previously.”

— Marilyn Manson

124. “I can’t go to sleep at night if I didn’t accomplish at least something. That’s the one thing that keeps me up.”

— Marilyn Manson

125. “I can’t satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”

— Marilyn Manson

126. “I don’t say things to be offensive; I say things because they’re funny to me. It amuses me.”

— Marilyn Manson

127. “I’ve been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.”

— Marilyn Manson

128. “One hates what one fears.”

— Marilyn Manson

129. “My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it’s my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.”

— Marilyn Manson

130. “If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first.”

— Marilyn Manson

131. “We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.”

— Marilyn Manson

132. “Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.’”

— Marilyn Manson

133. “Good and evil go hand in hand, you can’t separate them...”

— Marilyn Manson

134. “Watching movies is my one distraction.”

— Marilyn Manson

135. “If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.”

— Marilyn Manson

136. “This is the culture you’re raising your kids in. Don’t be surprised if it blows up in your face.”

— Marilyn Manson

137. “Nothing’s gonna change the world, nothing’s gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.”

— Marilyn Manson

138. “It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.”

— Marilyn Manson

139. “Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.”

— Marilyn Manson

140. “Your beautiful don’t let anyone tell you different.”

— Marilyn Manson

141. “Dear God, if you were alive, you know we’d kill you.”

— Marilyn Manson

142. “In the end we’re all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show.”

— Marilyn Manson

143. “I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.”

— Marilyn Manson

144. “God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.”

— Marilyn Manson

145. “Seance to renaissance. So it begins.”

— Marilyn Manson

146. “I’m a teen distortion, survived abortion.”

— Marilyn Manson

147. “It’s better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.”

— Marilyn Manson

148. “When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn’t want to drown anymore.”

— Marilyn Manson

149. “If I think I weigh too much, I’ll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I’ll cut it. I guess I’m my harshest critic. I’m not easily satisfied.”

— Marilyn Manson

150. “Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.”

— Marilyn Manson