Albert Fish Quotes

"What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried."- Fish, when he learned Albert Fish Quotes

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"Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind."- Fish, blaming his childhood for his crimes

"I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost."- Albert Fish's explaining his fondness of pain

"I shall never show it to anyone. It was the most filthy string of obscenities that I have ever read."-Fish's lawyer's response when asked to reveal the contents of Fish's last statement

"As a result of our psychiatric examination, we are of the opinion that this man at the present time is not insane."- From a 1930 Bellevue Hospital report on Albert Fish

"I kept track of the case papers. If they had accused someone else of the murder, I would have come foward. My best days are over."- Fish, one of his reflections

"That's the way I like meat, and you'll have to eat it that way, too."- Fish, displaying to his children his craving for raw meat

"I am Christ! I am Christ!"- Fish, on Sundays

"I use them on myself. I get certain feelings over me. When I do, I've got to torture myself."- Fish, explaining the use for his inch-and-a-half nail studded paddle

"Fish has lived a life of unparalleled perversity. There was no known perversion that he did not practice and practice frequently."-psychiatrists who examined Fish, finding him "disturbed" but not "insane"

"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they seek their lives, shall straiten them."- Jeremiah, 19:9 (Albert Fish's favorite passage of Scripture)

"These X rays are unique in the history of medical science."- Dr. Frederic Wertham, commenting on the X rays of Albert Fish's pelvic region