Marilyn Manson Quotes

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but at some point I have to say it. If something bad should happen to me, I want you to know that my commitment to what I am doing has been freely contracted, with the joy of knowing that this is precisely what I should be doing at this moment. Fear is constantly present in each one of us, because none of us are movie heroes. But we refuse to accept that fear must condition our actions and prevent us from doing what with a cool head and fervent heart we understand should be done.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.