Jeffrey Dahmer Quotes & Sayings

It is now over. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness, and now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused ... Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins ... I ask for no consideration. — Jeffrey Dahmer

Ideas keep turning over and over in my mind and they won't go away. — Jeffrey Dahmer

When you've done the types of things I've done, it's easier not to reflect on yourself. When I start thinking about how it's affecting the families of the people, and my family and everything, it doesn't do me any good. It just gets me very upset. — Jeffrey Dahmer

Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why I don't feel more remorse. — Jeffrey Dahmer

Yes, I always had that sense it was wrong. I don't think anybody can kill somebody and think that it's right. — Jeffrey Dahmer

It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've done, but I know that I did it. — Jeffrey Dahmer

My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what I've done. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I decided I wasn't ever going to get married because I never wanted to go through anything like that. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I carried it too far, thats for sure. — Jeffrey Dahmer

The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly like-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution, left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry for about a week in the bedroom. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I made my fantasy life more powerful than my real one. — Jeffrey Dahmer

When I was a little kid, I was just like anybody else. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing ... it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea. — Jeffrey Dahmer

Looking back on my life, I know I have made others suffer as much as I have suffered. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving need to do it I don't think I'm capable of creating anything. I think the only thing I'm capable of is destroying I'm sick and tired of being destructive. What worth is life if you can't be helpful to someone? — Jeffrey Dahmer

I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time. You just stifle them for so long that maybe you lose them, partially at least. I don't know. — Jeffrey Dahmer

It's a process, it doesn't happen overnight, when you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, 'Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.' And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see. — Jeffrey Dahmer

If a person doesn't think there is a God to be accountable to, then-then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing — Jeffrey Dahmer

If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me. — Jeffrey Dahmer

It's just like a big chunk of me has been ripped out and I'm not quite whole. I don't think I'm over dramatizing it, and I'm certainly deserving of it, but the way I feel now, it's just like you're talking to someone who is terminally ill and facing death. Death would be preferable to what I am facing. I just feel like imploding upon myself, you know? I just want to go somewhere and disappear. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done. — Jeffrey Dahmer

I've got to start eating at home more.. — Jeffrey Dahmer

If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now. — Jeffrey Dahmer