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Quotes About Murder

the Chinese have a very peculiar code of ethics, which makes them regard it as a more dishonourable thing not to pay a gambling debt than to commit murder.
~ Winston S. Churchill
If you felt sorry for every man you murdered, every life you broke in two, every slow and painful harvest you destroyed, every child whose future you stole, madness would throw her noose around your neck and lead you into the dark woods where the rivers are polluted and the birds are silent.
~ Unknown
Muerte (Una comedia) Tienen que comprender que yo no puedo competir con un asesino demente. Un maniaco tiene la fuerza de diez hombres y yo tengo la fuerza de medio...A menos que me estén utilizando como señuelo
~ Woody Allen
The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being.
~ Yann Martel
The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim.
~ Yann Martel
The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim.
~ Yann Martel
The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.
~ Unknown
His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Aku boleh saja dianggap tukang bercinta, tetapi aku bukanlah pembunuh seorang gadis remaja.
~ Cindy Adams
Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.
~ Cioran
The vibration of the heat was like the vibration of a sung oratorio. Only my hearing part was feeling. Closed-mouth canticle, sound vibrating deaf like something imprisoned and contained, amen, amen. Canticle of thanksgiving for the murder of one being by another being.
~ Clarice Lispector
Saber será tal vez el asesinato de mi alma humana.
~ Clarice Lispector
The most profound of murders: one that is a mode of relating, a way of one being existing the other being, a way of our seeing each other and being each other and having each other, a murder where there is neither victim nor executioner but instead a link of mutual ferocity. My primary struggle for life. "Lost in the Fiery Hell of a Canyon a Woman Struggles Desperately for Life.
~ Clarice Lispector
In short, for the murders of those I court, I bless the hour that holds your fall.
~ Claudio Sanchez
Do you know Camille Desmoulins?" he asked. "Have you seen him? He's one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous than a paper knife." He shook his head wonderingly. "Where do they come from, these people? They're virgins. They've never been to war. They've never been on the hunting field. They've never killed an animal, let alone a man. But they're such enthusiasts for murder.
~ Hilary Mantel
They say Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.
~ Hilary Mantel
And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.
~ Hilary Mantel
They say that Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.
~ Hilary Mantel
Slicing the cranium of her husband, the Marquis of Exeter, and stirring a forefinger in the murk of his intentions.
~ Hilary Mantel
G]li uomini sono vigliacchi. Hanno paura di quello che non vedono e non capiscono, e per placare quella paura trovano spiegazioni senza senso. Per questo tua madre è stata uccisa. Perché lei sapeva parlare con gli oni . Allora l'hanno accusata d'essere la reincarnazione d'una volpe. Ma una volpe non si trasformerebbe mai in un essere umano. Se potesse mutare aspetto, sceglierebbe un animale.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back.
~ Holly Black
If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?
~ Holly Black
Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?
~ Holly Black
I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back.
~ Holly Black