Marilyn Manson Quotes

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

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.

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

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

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

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

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

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

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.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.

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

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained within Big Brother exist within Little Brother. We're all watching ourselves. We are our own oppressors. This is a time when an idea like God is needed more than ever. For me, I've found that God exists within yourself and what you create. The only thing we've got to look forward to is saving ourselves

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.