Quotes by Marilyn Manson

“Its like, I guess just being offended by how much everything sucks, I cant help but be in a bad mood all the time.”

“Have you ever tried riding a pig, painted black, really high on drugs, wearing a cowboy hat?”

“When people say I want to be like you, I tell them if you want to be like me then be yourself.”

“the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.”

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.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you wont be afraid of it anymore.

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate childrens behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesnt have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.

Ive always believed that a person is smart. Its people that are stupid.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

When youre taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of todays youth.

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal youve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

The imagination is precious. Dont lose it. Dont lose the child in you.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump arent your friends.

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

When youre taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?