What goes through the mind of a serial killer? How could there be any rationality behind the heinous murders some of these people commit? In an attempt to learn about murder motivation, we've created a list of serial killer quotes that will give you a glimpse into the mind of some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists in modern criminal history.
From Charles Manson to Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Dennis Rader, these serial killers will give you a look into their motivations and what drove them to kill and, even crazier, keep on killing. Some of these serial killer quotes are seriously disturbing, as these notorious killers graphically describe why they killed people. Other quotes will disgust you and fill you with anger at their apathy toward life.
If you're easily disturbed or squeamish, be prepared to undergo a roller coaster of emotions as you read the crazy stuff some of these wackos have said. Peek into the mind of some of the most notorious serial killers by reading the quotes below.
Crazy Talk: Serial Killer Quotes About Their Motivation,
Aileen Wuornos
"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
Arthur Shawcross
"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
Charles Manson
"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
David Berkowitz
"I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time."
Source: Viralnova
Dennis Rader
"I had never strangled anyone before, so I really didn't know how much pressure you had to put on a person or how long it would take." - Rader describing how he killed each member of the Otero family, who he said did not die right away.
Source: CNN
Jeffrey Dahmer
"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
John Wayne Gacy
“The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.”
Source: The Evil 100 book
Susan Atkins
"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
Ted Bundy
"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
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