American Psycho (Film)

Patrick Bateman Quotes: 17 Toxically Evil Quotes From Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho

Perhaps the most disturbing book of our era. 
Mélanie Berliet
November 8, 2016
“I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible. This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term 'generosity of spirit' applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke.”
— Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Tagged: Desert, Nihilism, Vanishing Point
“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being— flesh, blood, skin, hair— but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning. Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn't figure out why— I couldn't put my finger on it.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho
Tagged: Identity
“… There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho
Tagged: Identity, Nihilism
“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho
“When we look up at the clouds she sees an island, a puppy dog, Alaska, a tulip. I see, but don’t tell her, a Gucci money clip, an ax, a woman cut in two, a large puffy white puddle of blood that spreads across the sky, dripping over the city, onto Manhattan.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Seeing Evil
“She’s barely gained consciousness and when she sees me, standing over her, naked, I can imagine that my virtual absence of humanity fills her with mind-bending horror.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Seeing Evil
“You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Awful
“I’m utterly insane and I like to dissect girls.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Murder, Evil
“We buy balloons, we let them go.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Change, Loss
“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Change, Loss
“I think a lot of snowflakes are alike and I think a lot of people are alike too.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: unique, You're Not Unique
“In the kitchen I try to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body, then I rest by watching a tape of last week’s new CBS sitcom, Murphy Brown.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Murder
“People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Routine, Slow Roll of Evil
“You don’t know what torture is. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You really don’t know what you’re talking about.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Torment, Torture
“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Torment, Torture
“I … want … to … fit … in.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: misfit
“And later my macabre joy sours and I’m weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing ‘I just want to be loved,’ cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer— all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: misfit