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The 35+ Most Chilling and Famous Serial Killer Quotes

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Famous Serial Killer Quotes – If you are a fan of true crime stories, then you should know that there are some truly frightening serial killers. Over history, there has been many serial killers that have become infamous for many things. While many serial killers are remembered for the nature of their crimes, there are several killers remembered for their statements when they told their stories. There are many famous criminals that span different time periods and these are just some of the most Famous Serial Killer Quotes:

  • “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
    Ted Bundy
  • “I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of them all.” 
    Zodiac Killer
  • “My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what I’ve done. “
    Jeffrey Dahmer, ‘Milwaukee Cannibal’ 
  • “One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?”
    Edmund Kemper, ‘The Co-ed Killer’
  • “I actually think I may be possessed with demons; I was dropped on my head as a kid.”
    Dennis Rader, ‘The BTK Killer’
  • “I like children, they are tasty.”
    Albert Fish, ‘The Boogey Man’
  • “A clown can get away with murder.”
    John Wayne Gacy, ‘Serial Killer Clown’
  • “It wasn’t as dark and scary as it sounds. I had a lot of fun…killing somebody’s a funny experience.”
    Albert DeSalvo, ‘Boston Strangler’
  • “I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing…I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.”
    H.H Holmes, ‘The American Ripper’
  • “I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight.”
    Gary Ridgway, ‘Green River Killer’

Additional Famous Serial Killer Quotes

  • “That is my ambition, to have killed more people – more helpless people-than any man or woman has ever lived”
    Jane Toppan, ‘Jolly Jane’
  • ” I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them.”
    Carl Panzram
  • “After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from my neck? That would be the best pleasure to end all pleasure.”
    Peter Kurten, ‘The Vampire of Düsseldorf’ 
  • “We’ve all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren’t afraid, control life itself.”
    Richard Ramirez, ‘The Night Stalker’
  • “The words, ‘I’m sorry’ will never come out, for they would be a lie. I am more than willing to give up my life for what I have done, to have God judge me and send me to hell for eternity.”
    Joe Metheny
  • “In this hole lives the Wicked King. Kill for my Master. I turn children into Killers.”
    David Berkowitz, ‘The Son of Sam’
  • “She isn’t missing. She’s at the farm right now.”
    Ed Gein, ‘The Butcher of Plainfield’
  • “I’m Jesus Christ. Whether you want to accept it or not, I don’t care.”
    Charles Manson
  • “I actually think I may be possessed with demons; I was dropped on my head as a kid.”
    Dennis Rader, ‘The BTK Killer’
  • “I’ve never felt sorry for anything I’ve done. Other than hurting my family. I do want my family to forgive me.”
    Richard Kuklinski, ‘The Ice Man’

More Chilling Lines from Serial Killers

  • “My knife’s so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance.”
    Jack the Ripper
  • “I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off.” – Edmund Kemper, ‘The Co-ed Killer’
  • “You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
    Ted Bundy
  • “When this monster entered my brain, I will never know, but it is here to say. How does one cure himself? I can’t stop it, the monster goes on, and hurts me as well as society, Maybe you can stop him. I can’t” 
    Dennis Rader, ‘The BTK Killer’
  • “I took the right leg of that woman’s body, from the knee to hip, took the fat off and ate it while she stared at the other girl When I bit into she just urinated right there”
    Arthur Shawcross
  • “I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all.”
    Richard Ramirez, ‘The Night Stalker’
  • “All of a sudden I realized that I had just done something that separated me from the human race and it was something that could never be undone. I realized that from that point on i could never be like normal people. I must have stood there in that state for 20 minutes. I have never felt an emptiness of seld like I did right then and I ill never forget that feeling. It was like I crossed over into a realm I could never come back from.”
    David Alan Gore
  • “Sex is one of my downfalls. I get sex any way I can get it. If I have to force somebody to do it, I do… I rape them; I’ve killed animals to have sex with them and had sex while they’re alive.“
    Henry Lee Lucas
  •  “To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out the cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.”
    Aileen Wuornos
  • “I don’t believe in man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself…. I preyed upon the wake of the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others: Might makes it right.“
    Gary Ridgway, ‘Green River Killer’

Quotes from Famous Serial Killer Films

  • “Something horrible is happening inside of me and i don’t know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I Think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”
    American Psycho
  • “We all go a little mad sometimes. haven’t you?”
    Psycho
  • “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” – Silence of the Lambs
  • Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative!”
    Scream
  • “And man is the most dangerous animal of all.”
    Zodiac
  • “Death is a surprise party. unless of course, you’re already dead on the inside.”
    Saw

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