Marilyn Manson quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Marilyn Manson has a lot to say. In this list we present the 54 best Marilyn Manson quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
(And check out our page with Marilyn Manson quotes per category if you only want to read quotes from a certain category, such as funny, life, love, politics, and more).
Marilyn Manson quotes
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
Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.
— Marilyn Manson
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 children’s 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 doesn’t have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
— Marilyn Manson
Music is the strongest form of magic.
— Marilyn Manson
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.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
— Marilyn Manson
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.
— Marilyn Manson
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.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
— Marilyn Manson
Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.
— 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
The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
— Marilyn Manson
The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
— Marilyn Manson
If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with “hail Satan, ” but I couldn’t bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
— Marilyn Manson
If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business.
— Marilyn Manson
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That’s the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
— Marilyn Manson
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
— Marilyn Manson
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
— Marilyn Manson
I’m so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
— Marilyn Manson
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
— Marilyn Manson
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
— Marilyn Manson
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
— Marilyn Manson
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
— Marilyn Manson
Man’s greatest fear is chaos.
— Marilyn Manson
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You’re aiming for something. It’s not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you’ve got anger and fear, but at least you’re feeling something.
— 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
Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.
— Marilyn Manson
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ or ‘The Hunger’ or ‘Harold and Maude.’ And… it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
— Marilyn Manson
Watching movies is my one distraction.
— Marilyn Manson
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who’s very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell – very glitzy, very high-tech.
— Marilyn Manson
I haven’t looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.
— Marilyn Manson
Marriage changes everything.
— Marilyn Manson
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.
— Marilyn Manson
I don’t say things to be offensive I say things because they’re funny to me. It amuses me.
— Marilyn Manson
I can’t satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
— Marilyn Manson
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it’s a tornado that I’m controlling. It’s creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
— Marilyn Manson
I think it’s the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you’re a person that matters.
— Marilyn Manson
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
— Marilyn Manson
I just don’t like when there’s a rumor that says I’m dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, ‘Thank you for the big ups!’
— Marilyn Manson
I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn’t fire me because I was the only person they had working there.
— Marilyn Manson
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn’t he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he’s a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn’t as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?
— Marilyn Manson
When you’re in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that’s what they want you to be, and that’s what you should just be, and for me, it’s very simple – if I meet a girl and I say, ‘This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.’
— Marilyn Manson
There’s no reason to change what you are, but if you’re not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
— Marilyn Manson
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
— Marilyn Manson
If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
— Marilyn Manson
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
— Marilyn Manson
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you’ve got the ability to believe.
— Marilyn Manson
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn’t have a job that gave them a pension.
— Marilyn Manson
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish