Quotes About Murder

Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on fatal quests or led them to begin senseless wars? What else led to thievery or murder? It wasn't desire that was the enemy, but the inability to assuage it. Desire was only an emotion. It was no more evil than love.

This was where Caitlin had been killed.

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

Knowing this, one autumn afternoon in late October 1979 Peter Sutcliffe answered the front door of his home to be confronted for the sixth time by murder squad detectives who had come to interview him.

After Killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper…

If our neighbors were white, they'd be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those proportions. Ninety-three percent of black folk who are killed are killed by other black folk. But 84 percent of white folk who are killed are killed by other white folk. It's not necessary to modify the noun murder with the adjective black. It happens in the white world too.

Tacitus informs us for example that after murdering his wife Poppaea in 65 AD, Nero used a year's supply of Rome's cinnamon to bury her.

They had been double-crossed in the act of double-crossing, which was probably what they should have expected from the start, especially knowing that the dead man at their feet was an American.

One kills so many people, these days, that it's hard to keep track.

Green's first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the 'Beast of Whitby'. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he'd collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard

When you have to murder people by the tens of millions to achieve your utopian dream, you have succeeded only in producing a dystopian nightmare.

The world is mediocre," Jed finally said. "And the person who committed this murder has increased the mediocrity in this world.

Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.

Serial killers do not belong, not to anyone.

The detectives asked him why he had had sex with a dead person and he replied that the body had still been warm. This confirmed the fact that people were just objects to him. All serial killers regard their victims as objects.

During my interview with Agmatir he told me he had killed the women because they reminded him of his girlfriend who had aborted his baby. He said it had almost killed him and certainly had broken his heart.

I asked him why he had left the bodies concentrated in one area. He replied that he wanted the police to find them all at once so that the families of the victims could be notified. He said he wanted to stop killing, but that he could not resist it.

Why can't serial killers take turns? Why do they have to come at us three or four at a time?

the person's ego needs to feel threatened by some event which causes a psychological imbalance. The psychological gain he receives from the murder is the restoration of the mental homeostasis, and of course most of them also experience sexual gratification.

Most incarcerated serial killers have admitted that as soon as they are released they will murder again, and many have done so. It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer and he may be active for many years before he is arrested.

rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

Serial killers do not take responsibility for killing; they are of the opinion that it is the police's responsibility to prevent them from killing.

South Africa has the second highest rate of serial homicides, the United States of America having the highest. Unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been fifteen serial killers active in Russia in the past five years.