Top 300 Marilyn Manson Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “It’s better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.”

— Marilyn Manson

152. “I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people’s moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.”

— Marilyn Manson

153. “The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.”

— Marilyn Manson

154. “If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.”

— Marilyn Manson

155. “You can find inspiration for man’s behaviour wherever you look.”

— Marilyn Manson

156. “My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn’t have a job that gave them a pension.”

— Marilyn Manson

157. “Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.”

— Marilyn Manson

158. “I can’t sleep without the TV on. It doesn’t matter where it is. I don’t like silence. My ears ring from loud music.”

— Marilyn Manson

159. “Art is a big question mark.”

— Marilyn Manson

160. “As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look.”

— Marilyn Manson

161. “Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they’re individuals. I don’t want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.”

— Marilyn Manson

162. “Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it.”

— Marilyn Manson

163. “My pain’s not ashamed to repeat itself.”

— Marilyn Manson

164. “The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.”

— Marilyn Manson

165. “Without the threat of death there’s no reason to live.”

— Marilyn Manson

166. “I fall in love very easily.”

— Marilyn Manson

167. “People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we’ve got sitcoms with canned laughter that let’s you know when to laugh if you’re to stupid to know when the joke is.”

— Marilyn Manson

168. “Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find ’em on my doorstep, and it’s like Christmas. I get excited.”

— Marilyn Manson

169. “I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face.”

— Marilyn Manson

170. “I’m so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.”

— Marilyn Manson

171. “Spare time is like spare change. It’s hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I’m not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.”

— Marilyn Manson

172. “The hero is never the star of the story.”

— Marilyn Manson

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173. “My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.”

— Marilyn Manson

174. “Things have become devalued to the point where people don’t realize the repercussions, that they’re devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.”

— Marilyn Manson

175. “There’s just no great rock albums anymore. There’s a lot of rock music out there, but it’s very bland and disposable.”

— Marilyn Manson

176. “The apocalypse doesn’t have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you’re the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet.”

— Marilyn Manson

177. “Ultimately, because I’m an artist, I can’t ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I’m optimistic.”

— Marilyn Manson

178. “Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.”

— Marilyn Manson

179. “People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don’t want to tell but they want everyone to know.”

— Marilyn Manson

180. “I’m everything they are afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide and a lot more. Besides, I speak my mind and show people what’s out there in reality.”

— Marilyn Manson

181. “People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don’t give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don’t believe that their position is an enviable one!”

— Marilyn Manson

182. “I think everybody’s got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”

— Marilyn Manson

183. “America puts killers on the cover of ‘TIME’ magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.”

— Marilyn Manson

184. “The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that’s closer to what I intended.”

— Marilyn Manson

185. “My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell – dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”

— Marilyn Manson

186. “If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I’m not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren’t related to me.”

— Marilyn Manson

187. “I’ve known Johnny Depp since I was 19.”

— Marilyn Manson

188. “Thinking for yourself – that’s scarier than any devil image...”

— Marilyn Manson

189. “To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it’s just as awful as anything else.”

— Marilyn Manson

190. “When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You’re aiming for something. It’s not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you’ve got anger and fear, but at least you’re feeling something.”

— Marilyn Manson

191. “I’ve found a woman I can relate to. That’s something – and I don’t even feel sappy saying it – that, if anyone has that, don’t lose it, because it’s probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.”

— Marilyn Manson

192. “Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don’t matter.”

— Marilyn Manson

193. “We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom’s not free of dumb.”

— Marilyn Manson

194. “I don’t think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that’s how you grow as a person.”

— Marilyn Manson

195. “I just don’t like when there’s a rumor that says I’m dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, ‘Thank you for the big ups!’”

— Marilyn Manson

196. “Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?”

— Marilyn Manson

197. “For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”

— Marilyn Manson

198. “I’ll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.”

— Marilyn Manson

199. “The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.”

— Marilyn Manson

200. “I don’t need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.”

— Marilyn Manson