Dennis Nilsen Quotes

#1. My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Alan Hovhaness

#2. Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Richard L. Evans

#3. I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.

Dennis Nilsen

#4. My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'

Mark Waters

#5. I saw him ... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Dennis Nilsen

#6. I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it?

Dennis Nilsen

#7. I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Sara Sheridan

#8. I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.

Dennis Nilsen

#9. I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.

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#10. I'll be damned if I act like a mouse, you overgrown tomcat.

J.C. Daniels

#11. In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Dennis Nilsen

#12. I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

Dennis Nilsen