Quotes About Murder

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

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)

Nothing says "I love you" like a dead body

Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.

One Corpse Too Many

THEY WERE QUIET MEN who discussed murder in normal tones.

MEN who discussed murder in normal tones.

His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing Camille; in his moments of calm, when the spectre was not present, he would have committed the murder over again had he thought his interests required it.

it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

Se remémorer Un Plaisir qui nous fut Retiré - Offre une Félicité comparable à un Meurtre - Omnipotente - Aiguë - Nous ne lâcherons pas le Poignard - Car Nous aimons la Blessure Que le Poignard Commémore - c'est Lui Qui Nous rappelle que Nous avons péri -

Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: Soon all the humans will be dead, she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. And then Opal will be loved. And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.

The ripple effects of young Opal's murder in the corner of a field were more widespread than even Artemis could have imagined, though in truth imagine is the wrong verb, as Artemis Fowl was not in the habit of imagining anything. Even as a small boy, he had never nurtured daydreams of himself on horseback fighting dragons. What Artemis preferred to do was visualize an achievable objective and then work toward that goal.

But who could possibly have a motive to kill us?

Willard jerked a little. "That's chilly, Constable. Did you just murder me?

The sort of reasoning that would try a woman for murder if she sought an abortion could well lead to renewed witch-hunts.

She'd decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much faith had been shattered already for Molly Cochran to allow for the possibility that it wasn't a stranger at all who'd abducted and murdered her child.

No one gets away with committting murder on the premises." "No exceptions?" she asked. His smile was as cold as his eyes. "One exception." "You," she said. "Me." She took a short, tight breath. "But you didn't kill Gloria Maitland," she said. "What makes you so sure I didn't murder her?" "You're a magician. You would have done a better job of it.

In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

Killers were his raison d'être.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

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.