Random Creepy Serial Killer Quotes About Their Motivations (20 items)

(#1) Ted Bundy
- Dec. at 42 (1946-1989)
"I haven't blocked out the past. I wouldn't trade the person I am, or what I've done - or the people I've known - for anything. So I do think about it. And at times it's a rather mellow trip to lay back and remember. I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill. I want to master life and death."
Source: CBS News
(#2) Charles Manson
- 88
"I've been 15 years in the nut ward, for trying to stop the trees from being cut down, from trying to rearrange the lifestyle of a bunch of people who don't want to change. But they're gonna change because a cold wind is blowing. You're gonna change or else there's going to be no life left on the planet Earth."
Source: The Independent newspaper
(#3) Susan Atkins
- Dec. at 61 (1948-2009)
"I killed her, I stabbed her and she fell. And I stabbed her again. I don't know how many times I stabbed her and I don't know why I stabbed her." - Atkins during her witness stand confession.
Source: Eugene Register-Guard
(#4) John Wayne Gacy
- Dec. at 52 (1942-1994)
“The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.”
Source: The Evil 100 book
(#5) Zodiac Killer

"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."
Source: Biography
(#6) Jeffrey Dahmer
- Dec. at 34 (1960-1994)
"I just get angry with other people who think they have a right to somehow try to blame my parents for what happened. That's not right at all. No one has the right to do that because they're totally innocent. They had no knowledge of it. And that angers me."
Source: NBC Interview
(#7) Aileen Wuornos
- Dec. at 46 (1956-2002)
"I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too. There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system."
Source: CNN
(#8) Arthur Shawcross
- Dec. at 63 (1945-2008)
"I was trying to better myself. I had the feeling it was going to work. But you meet a prostitute on the street and it's like a kid in a candy store." - Shawcross on trying to put his life back together after being released from prison.
Source: C&I Channel documentary
(#9) Edmund Kemper
- 74
"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."
Source: Front Page Detective Magazine interview via TrueCrime
(#10) H. H. Holmes
- Dec. at 34 (1861-1896)
"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."
Source: Biography.com
(#11) Henry Lee Lucas
- Dec. at 64 (1936-2001)
"I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a girl by mother. And I stayed that way for two or three years. And after that was treated like what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten. I was made to do things that no human bein' would want to do. Killing became the same thing as having sex."
Source: Criminal Minds
(#12) Albert Fish
- Dec. at 65 (1870-1936)
“I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost.”
Source: Of Pathics and Evil book
(#13) Richard Ramirez
- Dec. at 53 (1960-2013)
"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."
Source: TrueMurders.org
(#14) Carl Panzram
- Dec. at 39 (1891-1930)
"I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don't believe in man, God nor the Devil. I hate the whole damned human race including myself." - Panzram on his lack of remorse for his crimes.

Source: NY Daily News
(#15) Ariel Castro
- Dec. at 53 (1960-2013)
“I’m not a monster, I’m just sick.”
Source: USA Today
(#16) Albert DeSalvo
- Dec. at 42 (1931-1973)
"I did this not as a sex act...but out of hate for her. I don't mean out of hate for her in particular, really I mean out of hate for a woman."
Source: Of Pathics and Evil book
(#17) Charles Whitman
- Dec. at 25 (1941-1966)
"[I am] a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts. I love my wife dearly. I cannot rationally pinpoint any reason for doing this."
Source: Huffington Post
(#18) David Gore

"All of the 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 self like I did right then and I never will forget that feeling. It was like I crossed over into a realm I could never come back from."
Source: Of Pathics and Evil book
(#19) Gerald Stano
- Dec. at 46 (1951-1998)
"I can't stand a bitchy chick." - Stano on confessing to killing 33 women over the course of a decade
Source: The Age of Sex Crime book
(#20) Jane Toppan
- Dec. at 81 (1857-1938)
"That is my ambition, to have killed more people - more helpless people - than any man or woman who has ever lived."
Source: Washington Post