Dennis Nilsen Quotes & Sayings

The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are. They have, every one of them, got their deep dark thoughts with many a skeleton rattling in their secret cupboards. Their fascination with 'types' like myself plagues them with the mystery of why and how a living person can actually do things which may be only those dark images and acts secretly within them. I believe they can identify with these 'dark images and acts' and loathe anything which reminds them of this dark side of themselves. — Dennis Nilsen

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it. — Dennis Nilsen

I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could. — Dennis Nilsen

I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it? — Dennis Nilsen

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

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

I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate. — Dennis Nilsen

I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness. — Dennis Nilsen

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain ... There was never a place for me in the scheme of things ... I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges ... I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime. — Dennis Nilsen