100 phrases of the most famous serial killers (and psychopaths)

Unfortunately, serial killers leave an indelible mark on the world.His actions cause shock and intrigue in equal parts. In addition, their personal stories can be so intricate that they show us the result of an unfair and cruel life.

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Best serial killer quotes

With documentaries on television, the internet and streaming, murder cases take on great relevance, not only to find out the facts, but also the perpetrators. For this reason, we bring a compilation with quotes from serial killers.

1. Paranoia is a form of awareness, and awareness is a form of love. (Charles Manson)

All of his crimes were committed in the name of love, according to him.

2. Murder is not about lust and it is not about violence. It's about possession. (Ted Bundy)

Explaining what it meant to Ted to commit crimes.

3. Although my parents were kind and loving, I did not have the joy and company that small children usually have. From my earliest years, I remember my father saying, 'Don't' or 'You mustn't'. (John Haigh)

Restricting a person can unleash their darker side.

4. I decided that he was never going to marry me because I never wanted to go through anything like that. (Jeffrey Dahmer)

Making 'everyday' decisions.

5. I appear as a diabolic, ruthless and evil being but that is not so, I am a human being who suffered terribly and I continue to suffer. (Luis Alfredo Garavito)

Do you think that someone's suffering excuses their criminal behavior?

6. I feel pleasure hurting living beings, animals and people who were weaker than me, who couldn't defend themselves. (Mary Bell)

One of the best ways to see psychopathy.

7. I didn't want to hurt them. I just wanted to kill them. (David Berkowitz)

The pleasure of taking life.

8. I was so full of hate that there was no room inside me for feelings like love, grief, tenderness, honor, or decency. (Carl Panzram)

Many murderers have lost hope in humanity or in having a better life.

9. If I ate those people it was because I was hungry and dying. My blood is poisoned and an acid corrodes the liver. It was absolutely necessary that he drink fresh blood. (Richard Chase)

A hunger that was never going to finish satisfying.

10. I am a serial killer. I would kill again. (Aileen Wuornos)

Many murderers never regret their deeds.

11. I don't remember killing anyone, I could have done it without knowing it. I'm not sure if I did. (John Wayne Gacy)

A man who never admitted his ruthless crimes and took a thousand secrets to his grave.

12. I like children, they are tasty. (Albert Fish)

A man who never stopped before the suffering of the little ones.

13. The directors will fight for the rights to our story. We wonder who will take it to the movies, if Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino. (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold)

A dream that stem from your delusions of grandeur.

14. What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind. (Andrey Chikatilo)

A twisted way of chasing calm.

15. I believe that most human beings have within them the capacity to commit murder. (Richard Ramirez)

We all have the possibility of becoming criminals, if we go through an eventuality that drastically changes us.

16. I admired Hitler a lot, I wanted to become like him, get power to make myself respected. (Luis Alfredo Garavito)

A bad example leads to committing bad acts.

17. Society wants to believe that it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it is not feasible. There are no stereotypes. (Ted Bundy)

It is impossible to know who is bad, since they know how to pretend very well that they are good people.

18. They saved many people's lives by catching me, I would never have been stopped. (Alexander Pichushkin)

Some murderers are aware of the damage they have caused.

19. The only thing I regret is not being born dead or simply not being born. (Carl Panzram)

Her actions were also a kind of self-punishment.

20. When I see a pretty woman on the street, one side of me says, "what an attractive girl, I wish talk to her and get out of her with her,” but another part of me wonders what her head would look like poked in a stick. (Edmund Kemper)

Explaining how a part of her brain just doesn't work properly.

21. Why can't I kill him? If we are going to die anyway. (Mary Bell)

Some feel entitled to play with the lives of others.

22. I no longer wanted to continue killing to be left alone with his corpse. (Jeffrey Dahmer)

When crimes no longer have the same appeal as before.

23. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At some point, it is to be God. (Ted Bundy)

The final objective of the murderers, to believe themselves to be God?

24. I am the projection of the lie in which you live. Judge me and sentence me but I will always be living in you. (Charles Manson)

The greatest power of him and the most dangerous is his ability to convince.

25. Of course I thought, that pleasure was at the cost of the pain of all these little angels, as I tell them. (Luis Alfredo Garavito)

Different killers look for specific people, as if they have an obsession with it.

26. In all probability I will be damned, but I will not go as a monster, but as a tragedy. (Joel Riffin)

His personal perception of his death and fate.

27. Let's go in parts. (Jack the Ripper)

One of the phrases most related to the mythical English murderer.

28. What a joy to die in the electric chair. It will be the last chill. The only one I haven't experienced yet... (Albert Fish)

For Fish, self-inflicted pain was the greatest pleasure of all.

29. It would be as easy to bring a loaded gun to school as to walk into it with a calculator. (Dylan Klebold)

Unfortunately, school shootings are escalating at an alarming rate.

30. After my head has been detached from my body, will I be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood as it gushes from my neck? It would be the greatest pleasure to end all my pleasures. (Peter Kurten)

A disturbing future plan.

31. I don't like Mondays, I just did it to cheer me up for the day. I don't have any other reason, it was just for fun. (Brenda Ann Spencer)

One of the first assassins who caused a school shooting, due to his bad mood.

32. My motto is: steal them all, rape them all, kill them all. (Carl Panzram)

The more damage he did to others, the better for him.

33. I've killed so many women that it's hard for me to be clear about it. (Gary Ridgway)

In the end, it all comes down to numbers in your head.

34. They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the procedure. (Aileen Wuornos)

Proud of his personal method of killing.

35. He should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running through a graveyard without a license. (John Wayne Gacy)

Actually, the clown who inspired the character of It, was offended to be arrested for his crimes.

36. I am very lucky. I am going to die and I know exactly when. (Gary Gilmore)

For Gary, control is in knowing our end.

37. I need blood just as others need alcohol. (Peter Kurten)

His 'reason', to drink blood from his victims.

38. That is my ambition, to have killed more people, more defenseless people, than any man or woman who ever lived. (Jane Toppan)

A hunt where his victims were his trophies.

39. I have not killed anyone. I have not ordered anyone killed. (Charles Manson)

Manson wanted to downplay his actions by claiming that his followers had done it on his behalf.

40. It will be like the Los Angeles riots, like the Oklahoma bombing, like World War II and Vietnam, like Duke and Doom all mixed up. I want to leave my mark on the world. (Eric Harris)

Speaking of the magnitude of the attack and murder that he fled with his partner.

41. I've always wondered why I don't feel more remorse. (Jeffrey Dahmer)

Dahmer, whose story is the most watched on Netflix, never understood his lack of emotion.

42. For me it is a matter of indifference. (Albert Fish)

Indifference to both their own suffering and that of others.

43. He should have gone to college, gone into real estate and gotten an aquarium, that's what he should have done. (Jeffrey Dahmer)

Talking about the future he must have had as a 'normal' person.

44. When I kill them I know they belong to me, it's the only way to own them. I love them and I want them. (Edmund Kemper)

For some killers, death is about possession and power.

45. I wish humanity had a neck so I could hang it. (Gary Ridgway)

A killer instinct that would never go out.

46. In my next job I will cut off the lady's ear and send it to the police for fun. I can't stand certain kinds of women and I won't stop gutting them until I'm done with them. (Jack the Ripper)

A fragment of the English assassin's threatening letters about his next move.

47. Anyway, what's one less person on the face of the earth? (Ted Bundy)

He believed that he was doing humanity a favor.

48. I have several children whom I am turning into murderers. Wait for them to grow. (David Berkowitz)

The most terrifying thing is that he has sown the seeds of crime in others.

49. When this monster enters my brain, I will never know. But he came to stay... (Dennis Rader)

Mental illnesses are a frequent cause of the criminal nature of some.

50. People are like worms, small, blind and worthless. (David Smith)

Your perception of people.

51. I did this not as a sexual act... but out of hatred for her. I don't mean hate for her in particular, actually I mean hate for a woman. (Albert Desalvo)

When hatred towards someone turns into revenge against everyone they resemble.

52. I am sorry with all my heart for what my hand has done. I have taken what I cannot return. If only I could turn the hands of that eternal clock and change the past. (Danny Rolling)

Will he really have regretted his actions?

53. They do not understand me. As he supposed, they are not capable of doing so. I am beyond his experience. I am beyond good and evil... (Richard Ramírez)

The so-called, 'The Night Stalker', believed that he had a spiritual mission.

54. Here I am asking for forgiveness. However, I know I will go to hell. (Kenneth Bianchi)

Forgiveness relieves, but we still have to pay the consequences of our actions.

55. Don't stop coming to my trial, it's going to be wonderful and everyone is going to laugh. (Marcel Petiot)

Creating a show of his trial.

56. I don't feel guilty about anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilty. (Ted Bundy)

For Ted, we never have to regret our actions, good or bad.

57. I'm a monster. I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt. (David Berkowitz)

Carrying high his nickname of 'Son of Sam'.

58. Gentlemen, please do not look. It's not going to be pretty. (Marcel Petiot)

Talking about the moment of his execution.

59. I like to see the firefighters work... It's nice to see how they fall into the fire. (Cayetano Santos Godino)

Enjoying creating chaos that affects others.

60. I was getting a lot of negative publicity. I wasn't going to give people the satisfaction of seeing me fall. (Richard Ramirez)

In the same way, all these criminals had a bad reputation.

61. Ah, but alas, I am not the keeper of time, just a small part of the history and legacy of man's fall from grace. I'm sorry, Your Honor. (Danny Rolling)

A snippet of her apology speech for his crimes, at his trial.

62. I can tell that while I was opening the body, I was so greedy that I trembled and could have cut off a piece and eaten it. (Andreas Bichel)

The unbridled emotion that occurs in the mind of a cannibal.

63. People don't know me. They think so, but it is not. (Andrew Cunanan)

Nobody knows a real person.

64. He was giving me oral sex and he got carried away... So I drowned her. (Arthur Shawcross)

Showing how he changes scenarios and unleashes his evil.

65. You can't be a character who leads a successful secret life if he doesn't manipulate himself sometimes. (John Wayne Gacy)

We all tend to exaggerate our achievements a bit. But Gacy took it to a negative level.

66. I liked to drive through the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there. (Gary Ridgway)

A hunter looking for his defenseless prey.

67. I was born with the devil as my pattern at my bedside when he came into the world and he has been with me ever since. (Dr Holmes)

Believing that his actions were commanded by a diabolic possession.

68. Those creatures that come after you with knives are your children. I didn't teach you anything, you did. (Charles Manson)

Accusing society of the crimes it generated.

69. I suddenly realized that I had just done something that separated me from the human race and it was something that could never be undone. (David Gore)

When you commit a crime without reason, you become a murderer.

70. I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago. (Richard Ramirez)

No criminal reaches true love.

71. People like me don't come from the movies. Those movies come from people like me. (David Harker)

When reality is stranger than fiction, monsters are all around us.

72. Killing became the same as having sex. (Henry Lee Lucas)

Here we clearly see how pleasure is distorted.

73. Poverty leads to crime. I saw so many boys being whipped that it messed my mind. (Albert Fish)

Many criminals originate from having been exposed to other crimes.

74. They have given me time to put my affairs in order, an opportunity many lack. Think, for example, of my victims. (Gary Gilmore)

An opportunity his victims didn't get.

75. She is not missing. He is on the farm right now. (Ed Gein)

Boasting about the fate of his victims that only he knew about.

76. I saw it... peacefully in my chair. I remember wishing he could stay at peace like this forever. I had the feeling of easing her burden with my strength. (Dennis Nilsen)

A peace that only comes with death.

77. I'm a murderer, not a rapist. (Gary Ridgway)

Clarifying his crime specialties.

78. It wasn't as dark and raunchy as it sounds. I had a lot of fun. Killing someone is an entertaining experience. (Andrey DeSalvo)

A distorted diversion, that only he enjoyed.

79. A life without homicide is to me like a life without food is to you. (Alexander Pichushkin)

A justification for their actions.

80. I saw the children waddling across a pond and a herd of cows surrounding them, easy targets. (Brenda Ann Spencer)

Talking about his way of selecting his victims.

81. I hate them for excluding me from so many things. I hate them and they better be afraid of me Hate! I'm full of hate and I love it. The human nature of people is their death. (Eric Harris)

Rejection and bullying can also trigger criminal behavior.

82. I'm not crazy, I'm just eccentric. Sometimes I don't even understand myself. (Albert Fish)

An eccentric personality that caused a terrible evil to society.

83. We must value people for what they have inside. (Jack the Ripper)

An ironic way of demonstrating what the attractiveness of the victims is for this character.

84. I reform people who try to reform me and the way to do it is to kill them. (Carl Panzram)

Who did not agree with him, had his days numbered.

85. Maybe you can stop it. I can not. He has already chosen the next victim for him. (Dennis Rader)

Could it be that we can stop a murderer?

86. Any form of sport or light entertainment was frowned upon and considered non-edifying. There was only condemnation and prohibition... (John Haigh)

Talking about how his childhood restrictions affected his mind as an adult.

87. To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil came about by chance due to the circumstances of what I was doing. (Aileen Wuornos)

His way of reasoning was: if the world was bad, why did it have to be good?

88. Obviously and logically, I want to finish it. In fact, they've kept me in suspended animation since 1965. (Ian Brady)

There's always a personal reason why murderers can't stop.

89. Satan gets into people and makes them do things they don't want to do. (Herbert Mullin)

Some are convinced that it is Satan who possesses them to commit crimes.

90. The more he looked at people, the more he hated them. (Charles Starkweather)

Those who hate humanity have no reason to respect them.

91. I have to say this: I felt very, very, very good. One of the best things I've ever done in my life. (Daniel Gonzalez)

A terrible way to seek happiness.

92. There is much I would like to say, Your Honor, about our world and my beliefs. However, I feel that anything I have to say is overshadowed by the suffering I have caused. (Danny Rolling)

The truth is that his actions would never let people have compassion for him.

93. If I gave a shit about parents, he wouldn't have killed the kid. (Clifford Olson)

A clear sign that he didn't care about anyone.

94. Everyone plays a part and no one says what's really on their mind. (Richard Ramirez)

Do you think we all have a monster inside waiting to wake up?

95. I thought that a person who looked at me badly had to be shot. (Luis Alfredo Garavito)

An impulsive person who didn't know how to handle his anger.

96. The public has made me the godfather of cannibalism, and I'm content and happy with that. (Issei Sagawa)

A criminal who, in fact, acquired enormous fame for his cannibalism.

97. There is no better killer in the world than me. I don't regret anything, and if I could, I would definitely do it again. (Anatoly Onoprienko)

Showing himself proud of the magnitude of his acts.

98. I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. (Albert Fish)

A ruthless man who did not care about life or death.

99. Yes, I have regrets, but I'm not even sure if it's as deep as it should be. (Jeffrey Dahmer)

Talking about the way you feel.

100. I turn children into murderers. (David Berkowitz)

That was the real reason for him from the beginning.