Sociopath Quotes

“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf.
'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.'
'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.'
'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?”
― Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer

“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a friend.

A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body.

A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.

Who wouldn’t want to have a true friend? But they sound a lot like a sociopath.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it's 'right'? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense.”
― M. E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.”
― P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People

“The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—”
― P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People

“I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided them into two classes: those he greeted because some chance had put him in contact with them, and those he did not greet. But both these categories of individuals were equally insignificant in his eyes.

("An Old Man")”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Everyone watches television and decides they'll roleplay their favorite sociopath or their favorite mental invalid. Many of the people around today aspire to be deranged or something, it's embarrassing. It's like they want an escape from the mundane so badly that they'd induce (or act out) mental instability to get there.”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“BOUNDARIES
STEP ONE - set a boundary, what do you not want to hear, see, or do.
STEP TWO-decide limits - what you will and will not tolerate
STEP THREE - pay attention to people's reactions, if your boundaries make someone mad, then that person is abusing you. LESSON - someone that loves you would never hurt you, PERIOD! Learn this and self-love and you will be ok.
@tracyAMalone”
― Tracy A. Malone

“The healing doesn’t happen in the rewind. It happens in the pause. In the breath. In the moment you choose yourself again.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Like so many other serial killers, Ted needed to be considered a normal person. He did not want to be thought a pervert. So full of defeat that one wondered how he kept his mind marginally intact, he certainly did not want to be seen as a monster. And, like any number of sociopaths I have listened to, Ted so often spoke in cliches, even as he derided them. "Water under the bridge... stick its head in the sand." The cliche seems to give a sociopath something to cling to - a verbal anchoring place that allows him to communicate, to speak the language of normal people.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

“She is a mystery. It seems to me that she is not like other people. There is something she lacks. Kindness maybe, or conscience. You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. And I can’t feel her.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I'm not a psychopath, Anderson—I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
― Steven Moffat Mark Gatiss, Sherlock A Study in Pink #1 (of 6) CVR D

“As I watched the dark-haired beauty walk into Luca's home on Gino's arm in a red dress that flirted with her curves and only teased at what was underneath, that thing stirred deep within my chest. That same thing I'd noticed when I first saw her sitting there in the setting sun during the wedding ceremony. It was primitive and possessive and utterly unfamiliar to me, and it made me want to sink my knife into Gino's fat gut and gift her with a necklace of his intestines.”
― Angel Rayne, His Darkness

“B.S., I Luv You by Stewart Stafford

Bite that lying tongue in your cheek,
Shaman's mask to play hide-and-seek,
A whirlpool vortex being, so deluded,
Tarantuled me in, my senses denuded.

Checking blood banks - Yes! You got paid!
A sociopath's shameless, sick parade,
In sycophant shade, carrion crows convene,
Alibis caw over a cadaver's gangrene.

Botox sessions ended frowned,
Dredge up memories when you're around,
Bury your drained victims, vampire creep,
From oozing floorboards, vile secrets seep.

Communing with nocturnal revelry,
Hog feast at a bonfire of hypocrisy,
Scapegoating ends in mirrored past,
In tumbling runes, flaws naked, cast.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“青蛙的孩子大家都變青蛙了，四周全是青蛙吵死了受不了。我只不過是個體育老師，不懂太難的事。不過，之所以不覺得教育很厭煩還繼續做，是因為看著青蛙的孩子變狗、變馬，很有趣。 ⋯ 只不過，世間有很多沒眼力的人，摸到象的尾巴還大驚小怪地誤以爲是蛇，抓到牛角信以為是犀牛。那夥人連自己的鼻尖都看不到，每次撞到人的時候就發怒，還對別人嚷叫，你要巧妙閃躲走好！”
― 宮部美幸, The Devil's Whisper

“Your worth has nothing to do with your performance.”
― Tracy A Malone

“You know the truth of your heart even if they refuse to see it.”
― Tracy A Malone

“With the right tools, you can shift from chaos to clarity and protect your children from the psychological games narcissists play.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Even if you feel pushed out, do not fully close the door. Narcissistic relationships are unstable. When cracks appear, your child needs a safe path home not shame.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Understanding the dynamics of narcissistic abuse, trauma bonding, and estrangement gives you tools not just to cope, but to eventually reconnect from a place of strength.”
― Tracy A Malone

“You’re allowed to live even as you wait, even as you pray for reconnection. Taking care of yourself isn’t giving up; it’s surviving.”
― Tracy A Malone

“You are not the same person you were when the rupture happened. You’ve learned, you’ve grown, you’ve grieved. You are still becoming. And that’s happening in the present”
― Tracy A Malone

“None of that is happening in this moment. Right now, you’re breathing. You have a choice. You have life. You have moments in front of you that are still yours to live, moments that don’t belong to the estrangement unless you give them away”
― Tracy A Malone

“With time, awareness, and healing tools, the loops will loosen. The thoughts will come less often. You’ll get longer stretches of peace. And one day, you’ll notice you’re not thinking about them at all.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Be kind to yourself. You’ve been through mental warfare. Rumination is not weakness it’s a sign that your body and brain are trying to make sense of the trauma.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Bob Dekle, the prosecutor in the Leach trial, had a blunter, less charitable opinion. He saw Ted differently. He had seen too many sociopaths in his career to believe the mask. "A sociopath is a person who, if you sit down and talk to that person, you would like him. And the longer you listen to him, and he tells you about how society - how everybody's out to get him - you start to believe him. At times, Bundy had me believing him. But he's just another sociopath - except he has pretty face.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story