Murder Quotes
Emiliano Zapata
I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.
3621 Gloria Steinem
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
2928 Vincent H. O'Neil
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
1274 Joyce Carol Oates
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
2071 John Fowles
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
4627 Dennis R. Miller
Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.
3522 Linda Mickey
Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it's just murder.
4179 Jasper Fforde
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
1317 Ambrose Bierce
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
1621 Alice Sebold
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
4966 Ki Longfellow
... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
1081 Charlaine Harris
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
1504 Glen Duncan
There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.
2145 Sandra Chami Kassis
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!
3877 R.J. Peters
The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
1790 Laurell K. Hamilton
The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower-Peter
1493 John Webster
Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
3707 Stephen King
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
3420 Heinrich Heine
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
2250 Christopher Buecheler
I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.
4801 Yevgeny Zamyatin
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
1214 Louis Bayard
Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.
1577 Agatha Christie
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
1674 Nancy Horan
As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
3043 Greever Williams
Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun.
1601 Tom Conrad
In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George.
4035 Rachel A. Marks
The men stop coming after Hunt goes missing. We learned from the last brave soul to visit that they whispered all sorts of stories to answer his disappearance. My favorite is that we ate him. We cooked him up with our whore-earned corn, a dozen rats’ eyes, and a bat wing.
Even I couldn’t have thought of anything more perfect.
3932 Hector Avalos
By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.
4388 Richard Matheson
Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?
His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.
3138 Kendare Blake
You’re sure you didn’t leave? Didn’t try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don’t know, dismember some poor jogger?
3482 Robert Browning
The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm;
1145 Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Try to be thoughtful,
don't make the poor man say it;
see how human he is,
he has children of his own,
it is your job to ask:
Is she dead?
And he will nod and say yes
And now he can never not nod.
And now he can never say no.
And now he can never not say
yes.
3674 Nick Cohen
No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
1183 Takayuki Yamaguchi
He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
2370 J.G. Ballard
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
3630 Robert Galbraith
I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.
3345 Orhan Pamuk
Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.
3944 Paul Quarrington
The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.
1833 Patricia Highsmith
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
1334 Stacey T. Hunt
That’s quite the specific search...'Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches' - I can’t even begin to imagine what that involves.
1212 Lindy West
We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.
2763 Phindiwe Nkosi
Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that
seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without
confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.
4969 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.
3930 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
3279 Christopher Hitchens
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.
3849 Umberto Eco
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
4473 Robert G. Ingersoll
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
4112 Alexandre Dumas
The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
4934 Seneca
How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.
4132 Michael Bassey Johnson
When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.
4060 Naoyuki Ochiai
Great men are allowed to spill the blood of others.
1330 Lamar Waldron
All experienced murderers seek cover. By putting the Agency’s fingerprints on [Mafia] operations, the mob could anticipate that the CIA would [be forced to] cooperate in the cover-up of crucial information related to JFK's assassination
3889 Jennifer Birkett
Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
3009 Gerry Spence
There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.
2816 Stephen M. Irwin
Christ can forgive you," he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.
"That's grand," she said.
Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face.
2072 Wodke Hawkinson
You just couldn't give it a rest, could you, Sue? Had to keep badgering me. Snooping and poking around. I hope you're satisfied, now that you've ripped my guts out.
1663 Alexis Coe
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
2234 Shannon Celebi
She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.
2147 Jane Casey
As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.
3885 Thomas Harris
He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
3649 Ingrid
An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
3996 Jennifer DuBois
It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.
3199 Sylvia Plath
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
2986 Will Cuppy
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
2475 Harry Patch
War is organized murder and nothing else
1523 Marty Rubin
Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
1438 William Shakespeare
The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;
Towards which, advance the war.
They exit marching.
3272 Lloyd DeMause
Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.
4306 Primo Levi
It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of
thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist".
3711 Gabriel Marcel
Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l'être que je puis être amené à supprimer.
2858 Christina Westover
The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...
1275 Arthur Conan Doyle
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
1240 Shaun Jeffrey
Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.
3223 Jeanne M. Dams
History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?
3823 James Joyce
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
4895 Ryū Murakami
It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
3113 Sue Grafton
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
3184 Alice Sebold
What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
3911 Carol Matas
Will you be all right?" she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.
3592 Patricia Highsmith
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.
2763 Kat Kaelin
Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party.
1667 Wilhelm Reich
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
3842 Octave Mirbeau
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder - immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse - humanity.
3672 Nenia Campbell
There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
3735 Dean Koontz
From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died.
Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished.
What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?
4741 Thomas Harris
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
3642 Bret Easton Ellis
It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
3343 Ellen Hopkins
Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelty evolves into evil.
Some
humans aren't human at all,
despite how they appear.
Humanity is what lives inside
people,
harbored beneath skin, flesh,
and bone.
2275 Yevgeny Zamyatin
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
4328 Jean-Paul Sartre
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.
4773 Jim Morrison
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
2669 Ikechukwu Izuakor
Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves
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