Brian Hugh Warner, known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, visual artist, and former music journalist. Profoundly inspirational Marilyn Manson quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Marilyn Manson Quotes

You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be. Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson

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

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

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. Marilyn Manson

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

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. Marilyn Manson

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

I’m not against god, I’m against the misuse of god. Marilyn Manson

I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid. Marilyn Manson

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

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. Marilyn Manson

Most of the world’s problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant. Marilyn Manson

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

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate. Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson

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

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. Marilyn Manson

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

I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers. 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

The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you. Marilyn Manson

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

Enjoy your faults, that’s what separates you from the rest of the world. Marilyn Manson

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

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore. Marilyn Manson

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

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

All the drugs in the world won’t save us from ourselves. Marilyn Manson

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

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

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth. Marilyn Manson

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn’t want to drown anymore. Marilyn Manson

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

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. Marilyn Manson

You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be. Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

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

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

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room. Marilyn Manson

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

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. 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

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we’d kill you. Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

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. 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 don’t want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that’s the only way to go out. 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

I’m chaos, I’ve always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos. Marilyn Manson

My pain’s not ashamed to repeat itself. Marilyn Manson

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

But what’s real? You can’t find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself. 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

The crack inside your fucking heart is me. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

In the end we’re all Springer guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth. Marilyn Manson

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

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. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear. Marilyn Manson

Seance to renaissance. So it begins. Marilyn Manson

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity. Marilyn Manson

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

The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at. Marilyn Manson

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

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first. Marilyn Manson

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb. Marilyn Manson

A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. Marilyn Manson

I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference. Marilyn Manson

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes in wallets, holes in hearts in negative space. Marilyn Manson

You cannot sedate all the things you hate. Marilyn Manson

The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you. Marilyn Manson

I don’t like fun, it upsets me. Marilyn Manson

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. Marilyn Manson

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. 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

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present day mankind has to trime travel. Marilyn Manson

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

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he’s an angel? Or an angel who thinks he’s a man? Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore. Marilyn Manson

But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. 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

I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Marilyn Manson

I’ve never been a suicidal person. I’ve never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I’m seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous  as if you’re watching re runs of things you’ve already seen. Marilyn Manson

Your beautiful don’t let anyone tell you different. Marilyn Manson

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I’ve been to jail. The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do. Marilyn Manson

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills. Marilyn Manson

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. Marilyn Manson

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference. Marilyn Manson

Everything is acting. Marilyn Manson

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic. Marilyn Manson

I’m a confession that is waiting to be heard. Marilyn Manson

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity and media induced coma. Marilyn Manson

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. Marilyn Manson

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one. Marilyn Manson

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

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