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Dennis Nilsen
9 quotes
“Quite a few of us get pissed with liver crippling draughts of prison hooch, that last vestige of herbal medicine still available to cons.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
“The devil makes work for idle thirsts. But given the choice between booze and cannabis, I go for ganja every time.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
“It is frustrating to be translating other people's autobiographies whilst mine is lying unpublished, banned by the Home Office.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
“Being a loner has its advantages, a self-containment necessary for keeping body and 'soul' alive and progressing. Dying in prison is not such a great problem as living in prison.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
“Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea... down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins... when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 49,
“In those days I could hate Adam Scott very easily. I was, I suppose, very jealous of him having a relationship with and the attention of my mother. I sometimes felt that we, the Nilsen kids, were an impediment to her fulfillment in her new life and family. I was a very lonely and turbulent child. I inhabited my own secret world full of ideal and imaginary friends. Nature had mismatched me from the flock.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 53,
“I eased him into his new bed [beneath the floorboards] ... A week later, I wondered whether his body had changed at all or had started to decompose. I disinterred him and pulled the dirt-stained youth up onto the floor. His skin was very dirty. I stripped myself naked and carried him into the bathroom and washed the body. There was practically no discoloration and his skin was pale white. His limbs were more relaxed than when I had put him down there.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 113,
“I could only relate to a dead image of the person I could love. The image of my dead grandfather would be the model of him at his most striking in my mind. It seems necessary for them to have been dead in order that I could express those feelings which were the feelings I held sacred for my grandfather ... it was a pseudo-sexual, infantile love which had not yet developed and matured. The sight of them [my victims] brought me a bitter sweetness and a temporary peace and fulfillment.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 189,
“My troubles started there. It blighted my personality permanently. I have spent all my emotional life searching for my grandfather and in my formative years no one was there to take his place. It is the custom up there in Fraserburgh that when there is a death in a household they draw the blinds and curtains. When my grandfather died it seemed that these blinds had been drawn across my life... Relatives would pretend that he had gone to a 'better place'. 'Why', I thought, 'should he go to a better place and not take me with him?' 'So death was a nice thing,' I thought. 'Then why does it make me miserable?'”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 46,