Top 40 Richard Ramirez Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the end, we all die, and nothing really matters.”

— Richard Ramirez

2. “You don’t understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience.”

— Richard Ramirez

3. “We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?”

— Richard Ramirez

4. “I gave up love and happiness a long time ago.”

— Richard Ramirez

5. “I don’t believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society.”

— Richard Ramirez

6. “Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.”

— Richard Ramirez

7. “I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil, legions of the night – night breed – repeat not the errors of the Night Stalker and show no mercy.”

— Richard Ramirez

8. “Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.”

— Richard Ramirez

9. “Evil has always existed, the perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass and it’s gonna get worse.”

— Richard Ramirez

10. “I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I would shoot them in the head and they would wiggle and squirm all over the place, and then just stop. Or I would cut them with a knife and watch their faces turn real white. I love all that blood.”

— Richard Ramirez

11. “Who’s to say what’s evil? A man’s beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that’s what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be.”

— Richard Ramirez

12. “Even psychopaths have emotions. Then again, maybe not.”

— Richard Ramirez

13. “Everyone plays a role and no one says what’s truly on their mind.”

— Richard Ramirez

14. “While anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.”

— Richard Ramirez

15. “I believe that most humans have within them the capacity to commit murder.”

— Richard Ramirez

16. “You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.”

— Richard Ramirez

17. “A book I suggest to everybody is called, “Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain. It’s about Satan and his visit here. A good book.”

— Richard Ramirez

18. “When the state comes to execute a man, they laugh. So do I.”

— Richard Ramirez

19. “I don’t need to hear all of society’s rationalizations. I’ve heard them all before and the fact remains that what is, is. You don’t understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it.”

— Richard Ramirez

20. “Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he operates.”

— Richard Ramirez

21. “Everybody has got good and evil in them. I’d like to be 100% evil, but I can’t.”

— Richard Ramirez

22. “I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn’t hold anything for me.”

— Richard Ramirez

23. “Violent delights tend to have violent ends.”

— Richard Ramirez

24. “I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.”

— Richard Ramirez

25. “I’ve killed 20 people, man. I love all that blood.”

— Richard Ramirez

26. “There’s blood behind the Night Stalker.”

— Richard Ramirez

27. “What Satan means to me-Satan is a stabilizing force in my life. It gives me a reason to be; it gives me-an excuse to rationalize. There is a part of me that believes he really does exist. I have my doubts, but we all do, about many things.”

— Richard Ramirez

28. “We’ve all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren’t afraid, control life itself.”

— Richard Ramirez

29. “The media had portrayed me as a cold-hearted, ruthless monster, but I’m really not that way. I’m very down to earth. So, at that time I let people think whatever they wanted to. Tou see or hear about the crimes and then imagine what kind of individual was behind them.”

— Richard Ramirez

30. “I’m pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them.”

— Richard Ramirez

31. “One time I told this lady to give me all her money, she said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out. I would do someone in and then take a camera and set the timer so I could sit them up next to me and take our picture together.”

— Richard Ramirez

32. “And no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world, which kill in the name of god and country or for whatever reason they deem appropriate.”

— Richard Ramirez

33. “Satanists need to have more faith than Christians, because Christ was seen and felt. Lucifer has never felt the need to be seen, but in everyone’s soul he can be felt.”

— Richard Ramirez

34. “Blood is the substance that allows any living thing to exist, but blood is blood. I have heard of people drinking each other’s blood. They cut each other, and they drink it and it’s supposed to be a euphoric feeling. But, blood has no special interest for me.”

— Richard Ramirez

35. “I read suspense and horror, somethings that intrigue me. I have always been fascinated by death.”

— Richard Ramirez

36. “Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous.”

— Richard Ramirez

37. “All the killings are going to be blamed on me.”

— Richard Ramirez

38. “I’ve been accused of almost every crime you can imagine.”

— Richard Ramirez

39. “My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, wer I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.”

— Richard Ramirez

40. “I was receiving so much negative publicity. I wasn’t going to give people the satisfaction of seeing me down.”

— Richard Ramirez