43 'Dexter' Quotes: Gaze into This Blood-Thirsty Psychopath’s Twisted Mind

Dexter Morgan is a serial killer with a particular lust for blood and a questionable moral compass, where he only takes the lives of those found guilty of heinous crimes. Read the 43 quotes below to find out more.

Dexter Morgan showed signs of disturbing anti-social tendencies from a young age, including the desire to murder. Noticing this, his adoptive father devised a solution via a moral code that leaves audiences uneasy.

This process of killing those who have been found undoubtedly guilty of committing a crime is how Morgan lets his dark impulses out while still maintaining his sick ethical code. Morgan is obsessed with blood, and his process of murdering is long and torturous.

Read these 43 quotes that will make you hate yet, despite yourself, feel sorry for this monster hidden among the masses.

An image of a speck of blood with Dexter Morgan’s quote: “Blood. Sometimes, it sets my teeth on edge; other times, it helps me control the chaos.” | Source: Showtime

Unsettling and Dark Quotes

“Tonight’s the night. And it’s going to happen again, and again. It has to happen. It’s not what I want. But what I want doesn’t matter. This is the only way I know how to survive. I’m coiled and ready to strike.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. I had studied hard and practiced long, and when I applied myself no one could tell I was faking it.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Because in the land of predators, a lion never fears the jackal.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I felt a lot better. I always did, after. Killing makes me feel good. It works the knots out of darling Dexter’s dark schemata. It’s a sweet release, a necessary letting go of all the little hydraulic valves inside.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I certainly don’t talk about it, but it’s there—always. This Dark Passenger.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: ”Do I see sheets of plastic in your future?” | Source: Showtime

“Blood. Sometimes, it sets my teeth on edge; other times, it helps me control the chaos.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I don’t do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, my job is to make order out of chaos.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Do I see sheets of plastic in your future?” ― Dexter Morgan

“It’s said there are seven stages of grief. I suppose killing someone with my bare hands in a men’s room was my way of working through the anger stage. Whatever the other six stages are…I don’t have time for them.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; he taught me how to cover my tracks. I’m a very neat monster.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “I don’t run. I make people run….” | Source: Showtime

“I can kill a man, dismember his body, and be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend’s feeling insecure… ’m totally lost.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I’ve never had much use for the concept of Hell, but if Hell exists, I’m in it. The same images running through my head, over and over.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I don’t have bad dreams. When I sleep, all of me sleeps. Nothing ever goes bump in Dexter’s night.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I don’t run. I make people run….” ― Dexter Morgan

“I love Halloween. The one time of year when everyone wears a mask—not just me.” ― Dexter Morgan

Sympathetic Quotes Devoid of Empathy and Connection

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “I see their pain. On some level, I even understand their pain. I just can’t feel their pain.” | Source: Showtime

“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn’t seem like a big deal. I’m quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it.” ― Dexter Morgan

“They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being, it’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I see their pain. On some level, I even understand their pain. I just can’t feel their pain.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I’ve lived in darkness for a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Never underestimate the capacity of other people to let you down.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “If home is where the heart is, where do you go when you don’t have a heart?” | Source: Showtime

“Anybody can be charming if they don’t mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don’t have a conscience. I say them.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I would give everything to feel nothing again.” ― Dexter Morgan

“People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Everyone hides who they are at least some of the time. Sometimes you bury that part of yourself so deeply that you have to be reminded it’s there at all. And sometimes you just want to forget who you are all together.” ― Dexter Morgan

“If home is where the heart is, where do you go when you don’t have a heart?” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “I would give everything to feel nothing again.” | Source: Showtime

“But I finally just have to accept that I’ll always be alone.” ― Dexter Morgan

Reflective and Thoughtful Quotes

“It’s okay. Life doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Life’s only obligation, after all, was to be interesting.” ― Dexter Morgan

“The only sound I hear, the only sound in the entire world—is my heart beating.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “It’s okay. Life doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.” | Source: Showtime

“The body forms scar tissues to close a wound. Eventually, scars fade. Who knows? With enough time, you might not even remember how you got them.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Despite having considered myself a monster for as long as I can remember, it still comes as a shock when I’m confronted with the depth of evil that exists in this world.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Life is so fleeting, so fragile. Every breath, the potential to be our last.” ― Dexter Morgan

“I can always see other people’s problems more clearly than my own.” ― Dexter Morgan

“If eyes are the window to the soul, then grief is the door. As long as it’s closed, it’s the barrier between knowing and not knowing. Walk away from it, and it stays closed forever. But open it and walk through it, and pain becomes the truth.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “Life’s only obligation, after all, was to be interesting.” | Source: Showtime

″ 'I do understand, Father,’ I said, and there was something in my voice, the Dark Passenger’s voice now, and the sound of it froze him. He lifted his head slowly to face me and what he saw in my eyes made him very still. ‘I understand perfectly,' I told him, moving very close to his face. The sweat on his cheeks turned to ice. ‘You see,’ I said, ‘I can’t help myself, either.’ " ― Dexter Morgan

“She’s the only person in the world who loves me. I think that’s nice. I don’t have feelings about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I’d have them for Deb.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.” | Source: Showtime

“All you can do is play along with life and hope that sometimes you get it right.” ― Dexter Morgan

“We create our own destiny every day we live.” ― Dexter Morgan

“There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.” ― Dexter Morgan

“Harry and Doris Morgan did a wonderful job raising me. But they’re both dead now. I didn’t kill them, honest.” ― Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan, with his quote: “We create our own destiny every day we live.” | Source: Showtime

Michael C. Hall played Morgan alongside Jennifer Carpenter, Christina Robinson, Jonathan Banks, Julia Stiles, and many other talented performers.

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