Marilyn Manson Quotes

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I have no desire to look at myself.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I always say when someone says something negative about me, it's really saying something negative about them.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

It's tough being me.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.