Marilyn Manson Quotes

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.