Quotes About Serial Killers

#1. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

John Grisham

#2. Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!

Kim Harrison

#3. No wonder serial killers liked to chop up women," Julia said. "They seem so much better when they're just bits and pieces.

Ainslie Hogarth

#4. Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.
Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.

Katie McGarry

#5. We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.

John Connolly

#6. Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

Pat Brown

#7. I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

David Fincher

#8. Mall maintenance halls are creepy. Plain and white, with fluorescent lighting, they evoke images of serial killers, hockey masks nd bloody butcher knives. The figure standing at the end does not help matters.

Suzanna J. Linton

#9. The FBI had once estimated there were approximately two-hundred and fifty serial killers active in the US at any one time. Alex's job was whittling that number down, one murderous asshole at a time.

Toni Anderson

#10. I don't know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who've perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well as my mother has.

Adrianne Brooks

#11. Some stories don't make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers ... sure. But there's some feelings you can't put on a screen.

Damon Suede

#12. If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

George Carlin

#13. I read a lot about serial killers.

Jamie Dornan

#14. Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

Pat Brown

#15. I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Lauren Beukes

#16. Only two kinds of people drink their coffee black: cops and serial killers.

Ilona Andrews

#17. I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

Ken Livingstone

#18. While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Pat Brown

#19. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.

Tim Dorsey

#20. My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

Katie Price

#21. Have you heard about the MacDonald triad?" "Three traits shared by ninety-five percent of serial killers," said Dr. Neblin. "Bed-wetting, pyromania, and animal cruelty. You do, I admit, have all three.

Dan Wells

#22. 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

#23. When we see something like this we forget the most important and most obvious thing ... those butterflies will never fly again."
"It's unnatural, and yet it's so seductive ... "
"That's exactly the effect that death has on some individuals. That's why serial killers exist.

Donato Carrisi

#24. Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.

Dov Davidoff

#25. I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

Sam Raimi

#26. Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!

Barry Lyga

#27. I love anything to do with serial killers.

T. Cooper

#28. Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

Pat Brown

#29. Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

Shalom Auslander

#30. That GP was none other than Harold Shipman, who many years later would be identified as one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.

Linda Fairley

#31. A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.

Robert Cormier

#32. That's where the public like their artists - exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us.

Hanif Kureishi

#33. You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Benicio Del Toro

#34. All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

Pat Brown

#35. That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment.

Lynn Viehl

#36. We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

Pat Brown

#37. Even though I am wary of Nature. After all, where do most manhunts for escaped serial killers begin? Exactly. In the woods.

Augusten Burroughs

#38. Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.

Kevin Dutton

#39. I've tried explaining to her several times that serial killers don't kill fat girls.

Jasinda Wilder

#40. Serial killers were hopped-up eyeball fuckers and ravaged inner children. They were scary in the moment and as dismissible as an empty box of popcorn.

James Ellroy

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Guy Hadleigh

#42. Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

Jess C. Scott

#43. Serial killers may stand apart from society, but they are able to blend in even better than 'normal' people as they are camoflaged in contemporary anonymity.

Kurt Jensen

#44. Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters, that no member of their community could hide such dark desires. Once upon a time, she'd lived in one.
And the monster there had ripped her life apart.

Elizabeth Heiter

#45. Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Libba Bray

#46. For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Mark Lynas

#47. Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers
a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others
are also shared by politicians and world leaders.

Kevin Dutton

#48. Where else can bubble-gum hearts, the dream travellers, the serial killers, and the occasional guest-star from beyond the grave occupy the same space?

Clive Barker

#49. You're still riding home with me right? He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?

Lauren Barnholdt

#50. If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Albert Brooks

#51. Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

Marilyn Johnson

#52. Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Pat Brown

#53. I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Ralph Fiennes

#54. There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

Pat Brown

#55. They are so good they can get serial killers before they even get started.

Marshall Thornton

#56. Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers

Darynda Jones

#57. I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Karin Slaughter

#58. Serial killers often kept souvenirs of their kills, and body parts were a pretty typical choice.

Dan Wells

#59. Maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.

Chelsea Cain

#60. Children. Pay close attention to them. They grow up to be adults. The really heinous people we see on the news? The serial killers, murderers, rapists, and complete ass-hats of society? Yeah, they were children once. And no one paid attention.

Scott Hildreth

#61. One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

James Purefoy

#62. I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

Paula Hawkins

#63. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#64. They hate women," Moore said. "Serial killers are the zenith of misogyny." "No, Mr. Moore, that would be the invention of the corset,

Madeline Ashby

#65. He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.

'The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

A. Ashley Straker

#66. I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

Tom Araya

#67. Who has a hedge maze in a residential neighborhood? ... serial killers presumably, people who enjoy Steven King novels a bit too much, and people that are hoping one night they will wake up to find David Bowie standing at their window.

Seanan McGuire

#68. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

Neal Stephenson

#69. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Lev Grossman

#70. Being really good at something you shouldn't be doing doesn't make it any better," Mom said.
"It's a history class," I said, "and serial killers are a part of history. So are wars and racism and genocide. I guess I forgot to sign up for the 'happy stuff only' history class, sorry about that.

Dan Wells

#71. I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

Andrew-Lee Potts

#72. You know Karen, everybody thinks serial killers are ignorant, but we are actually extremely intelligent.

Mary Burton King

#73. Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.

Richard Ramirez

#74. You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

Gordon Strachan

#75. I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

James Lee Burke

#76. While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

Pat Brown

#77. Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.

Rita Rudner

#78. There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people ... mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.

Richard Castle

#79. There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

Pat Brown

#80. Paul Wilson) The Serial Series (with J.A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn) "Serial" (short story) "Bad Girl" (short story) Serial Uncut (novella) Killers (novella) Birds of Prey Killers Uncut Serial Killers Uncut (double novel)

Blake Crouch

#81. Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Jon Ronson

#82. Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Joel Edgerton

#83. Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

Rafael Yglesias

#84. In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Pat Brown

#85. People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Caleb Carr

#86. That's true. That's so true. Serial killers don't wear seersucker

Linda P. Kozar

#87. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police. His

Margaret Atwood

#88. Kate wondered who was more addicted to their high, serial killers or coffee addicts.

Victoria Schwab

#89. Most serial killers and criminals study psychology at some point. It's easier to spot them that way,

Cameron Jace

#90. I am honored and humbled by the fine reviews my new book "Why We Lover Serial Killers" is receiving.

Scott A. Bonn

#91. I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

Nina Bawden

#92. Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Pat Brown

#93. If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

Zach Braff

#94. I was born with the devil in me ...

H. H. Holmes

#95. Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. -Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy

#96. Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder.

Anais Torres

#97. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#98. Also, the killing of small animals is the entrance ramp onto the serial killer superhighway. Damn. I bet the cat knows that. He picked me because I can't hurt him, or I'd be fulfilling my biological destiny. So I'm screwed. The cat stays. Unless you'll kill him ... How does fifty bucks sound?

Kelley Armstrong

#99. You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.

Richard Ramirez

#100. Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

Kool Moe Dee