Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

— Marilyn Monroe

102. “In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.”

— Marilyn Monroe

103. “Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”

— Marilyn Monroe

104. “I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.”

— Marilyn Monroe

105. “Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

106. “A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

— Marilyn Monroe

107. “Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty.”

— Marilyn Monroe

108. “A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

— Marilyn Monroe

109. “There is a future, and I can’t wait to get to it.”

— Marilyn Monroe

110. “I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.”

— Marilyn Monroe

111. “It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.”

— Marilyn Monroe

112. “Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

113. “That’s the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”

— Marilyn Monroe

114. “I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?”

— Marilyn Monroe

115. “One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

— Marilyn Monroe

116. “Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”

— Marilyn Monroe

117. “There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth – albinos.”

— Marilyn Monroe

118. “Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don’t expect me to be serious about my work.”

— Marilyn Monroe

119. “I believe in everything – a little bit.”

— Marilyn Monroe

120. “When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.”

— Marilyn Monroe

121. “Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.”

— Marilyn Monroe

122. “I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.”

— Marilyn Monroe

123. “Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

— Marilyn Monroe

124. “I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.”

— Marilyn Monroe

125. “Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.”

— Marilyn Monroe

126. “The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.”

— Marilyn Monroe

127. “I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.”

— Marilyn Monroe

128. “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

— Marilyn Monroe

129. “It’s better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

130. “There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are, because if we don’t, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.”

— Marilyn Monroe

131. “Do not worry, and worry.”

— Marilyn Monroe

132. “The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”

— Marilyn Monroe

133. “Remember now, Cheers, no tears.”

— Marilyn Monroe

134. “I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

135. “If a man doesn’t want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn’t deserve you at your best.”

— Marilyn Monroe

136. “Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.”

— Marilyn Monroe

137. “A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!”

— Marilyn Monroe

138. “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

139. “A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.”

— Marilyn Monroe

140. “Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.”

— Marilyn Monroe

141. “Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.”

— Marilyn Monroe

142. “I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.”

— Marilyn Monroe

143. “The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

— Marilyn Monroe

144. “Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right.”

— Marilyn Monroe

145. “Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.”

— Marilyn Monroe

146. “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

— Marilyn Monroe

147. “When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.”

— Marilyn Monroe

148. “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

— Marilyn Monroe

149. “Friends accept you the way you are.”

— Marilyn Monroe

150. “I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.”

— Marilyn Monroe