Top 100 Sociopath Quotes
#1. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#2. Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
Jeff Cooper
#3. Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".
Jack Pendarvis
#4. Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at the top of the corporate ladder than in the janitor's closet, due to the close match between the personality traits of sociopaths and the unusual demands of high-powered jobs.
M.E. Thomas
#5. I had called him out on being creepy, justifiably so, and it didn't faze him at all. He didn't stammer an apology or flush with shame and regret. He just kept looking at me evenly. Most likely, he was a damn sociopath, and for whatever reason, I found that endearing.
Amanda Hocking
#6. I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.
Greg Bryk
#7. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.
Scott Adams
#8. And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#9. I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.
Lisa Scottoline
#10. You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.
Charles Stross
#11. Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.
Mary McCormack
#12. There is endless psychological research on evil people. But in my experience the average sociopath has no idea they are wrong. They're born this way, not made.
Kate Moretti
#13. I used to be a nice, normal, borderline sociopath.
Stylo Fantome
#14. The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology
Jack Olsen
#15. The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.
Mat Johnson
#16. Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.
C.C. Hunter
#17. All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
Dan Gilroy
#18. You are a sociopath, Adrius. You don't only do what you need to do. You wear whatever face you need, whatever emotion you desire like a glove.
Pierce Brown
#19. I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.
Jonathan Weeks
#20. I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn
#21. [T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
Jay-Z
#22. I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.
Jessica Capshaw
#24. He was already a sociopath, and he was just out of kinder-garten. I didn't think much of it at the time. It was the family way.
James Patterson
#25. Axwelle. Figured you might as well start the eval with the one most likely to be considered a sociopath.
J.R. Ward
#26. Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
Khaled Hosseini
#27. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#28. Sociopath" and "psycho" were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression. I heard it all the time: "I've read about people like you. They have no expression because they have no feeling. Some of the worst murderers in history were sociopaths.
John Elder Robison
#29. If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.
Martha Stout
#30. There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#31. You know what they call a sociopath with a conscience?"
It sounded like the setup to a joke so Elle took the bait. "No, what do they call a sociopath with a conscience?"
"They call her 'Mistress'.
Tiffany Reisz
#32. America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it's normal to dream of becoming like him.
Gary Indiana
#33. I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.
Roseanne Barr
#34. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to." "Does everyone pretty much think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?" "It's all you let people see," he said, "until now.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. There's another word for a charmer, a more accurate description.
Sociopath
Sasha Grey
#36. There's an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.
Tom Hiddleston
#37. Beware the hospitality of the sociopath.
Don Winslow
#38. I'm a sociopath, Mom, I don't love anybody. By definition.'
'Is that an implicit threat?'
'Oh, for the-! No, it was not a threat, Okay, I'm leaving.
Dan Wells
#39. I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.
Lisa Scottoline
#40. He realized, even if she didn't, that John possessed great
wisdom as well as great power. Sometimes, making a real human connection was more effective than the power of persuasion and the threats of a sociopath put together. And that was totally awesome.
Natasha Larry
#41. I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'
Bo Burnham
#42. If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#43. The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron
C.J. Anderson
#44. You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#45. How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.
John Rosemond
#46. I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#47. Vlad was cunning to the point of being a sociopath.
Jeaniene Frost
#48. The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.
Tim Field
#49. I can never remember the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath. But I do know the difference between me and most men.
Alison Ryan
#50. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
Hanya Yanagihara
#51. I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.
Heather O'Neill
#52. People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.
Himmilicious
#53. There's a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you're walking the line.
Cora Carmack
#54. A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
Walter Kirn
#55. I don't need psychology
I am not a sociopath
Neither and Psychopath
Deyth Banger
#56. Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
Robert Breault
#57. So far as I can tell, 'good dragon' is just another name for coldblooded sociopath," he said. "No friends, no trust, no love. Why would I ever want to live like that? It's not like any of you good dragons are happy.
Rachel Aaron
#58. Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category
Mira Grant
#59. Allison's eyes dart between me and the knives. Yeah, lady, a couple of hours in jail and I've moved from destruction of property to sociopath.
Katie McGarry
#60. One out of twenty-three is a sociopath and that's 4 percent of the population, that's a lot of sociopaths. Anorexic's are 3 percent and everybody talks about them.
Lisa Scottoline
#61. There were twenty questions, and forty was the top score. I scored
a thirty- eight, which means I would be graduating with honors if
I majored in being a sociopath.
Lisa Scottoline
#62. You're a chain-smoking, alcoholic hyper-violent sociopath with daddy issues!"
"When you say it like that it sounds bad ...
S.L.J. Shortt
#63. A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
Dan Gilroy
#64. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.
Nigel Hamilton
#65. If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
Lorin Stein
#66. Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
Jasmine Cresswell
#67. I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess.
Amy Poehler
#68. Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.
John Oliver
#70. I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.
Whitney Cummings
#71. The word of a sociopath is fluid, at best.
Sara King
#73. Trust me," I said, "from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love." He
Dan Wells
#74. A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions.
R. Alan Woods
#75. Finny Boone is probably a sociopath. A big, lighter-stealing sociopath, but his eyes are steady and complicated.
Brenna Yovanoff
#76. I know he's a sociopath. I don't care. We all have our issues. But he's my sociopath,
Jessica Clare
#77. Trust me, from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love.
Dan Wells
#78. It's Lila
come on, Jack. She might be a little impulsive but that doesn't make her a sociopath.'
I swivelled my gaze to Jack, trying my best not to look like a sociopath.
Sarah Alderson
#79. Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.
C.J. Anderson
#80. My team - an actor, a drunk, and a sociopath - didn't exactly inspire confidence.
Veronica Rossi
#81. Now be a good little sociopath and shut the fuck up while you get taken in for medical treatment." In
J.R. Ward
#82. See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.
Diana Peterfreund
#83. Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
Gillian Flynn
#84. What great cosmic law convinces you that you owe people "the truth", Lane? I don't really think in those terms. My truth is whatever I say it is - Sociopath?
Vicki Williams
#85. Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.
Holly Black
#86. I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.
George Carlin
#87. People are attracted to the sociopath's exceptionalism like moths to a flame.
M.E. Thomas
#88. Good looking? Check. Brilliant? Check. Rich? Check. Possible sociopath? Double check. Great. I was dining with Ted Bundy.
Rachel Van Dyken
#89. When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.
Jon Roberts
#90. Wow, I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.
Jon Ronson
#91. There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.
Denzel Washington
#92. That figures," said Mom, stepping in from the landing and closing the door. "The only member of this family with a normal relationship is a sociopath.
Dan Wells
#93. A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
Dan Gilroy
#94. That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!
Mindy Kaling
#95. Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
Michael A. Stackpole
#97. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.
Dan Wells
#98. I always enjoyed the meticulous planning of every kill and of course the large payday that follow. It all became an exuberant game, and I couldn't stop...
Mary Burton King
#99. How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?
Dan Skinner
#100. My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.
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