Marilyn Manson > Quotes

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson

“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.”
― Marilyn Manson

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

“I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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

“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate. ”
― Marilyn Manson

“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic. ”
― Marilyn Manson

“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
― Marilyn Manson

“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

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”
― Marilyn Manson

“What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”
― Marilyn Manson

“We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. ”
― Marilyn Manson

“You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”
― Marilyn Manson

“When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”
― Marilyn Manson

“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”
― Marilyn Manson, Marilyn Manson Talking

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
― Marilyn Manson

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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

“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?”
― Marilyn Manson

“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.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell