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Quotes About Murder

On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanely butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics; her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
~ Simon Singh
Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?
~ Simon Wiesenthal
It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
You see, we don't like murder as a way of argument—that's what really marks the Liberal!
~ Sinclair Lewis
Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated—tortured—slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!
~ Sinclair Lewis
I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. -Sherlock Holmes
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My parents watch too many soap operas, that's their trouble. In fact, they were probably hoping I was pregnant. By my wicked married lover whom they could then murder and bury under the patio.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Never to have been born is best. Everyone knows that, and a close second, once you have appeared in this life, is a quick return, as soon as you can, to where you came from. In our light-headed youth we carry blithe ideas, not knowing what blows await, what hardships are bearing down, closer and closer. Murder, hatred, strife, resentment, and envy are lurking, and then, behind them, bitter old age, powerless, friendless, with evils our only neighbors.
~ Sophocles
Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left to breed With her own seed, a monstrous progeny. Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.
~ Sophocles
you brought my sperm rising back, springing to light fathers, brothers, sons—one murderous breed— brides, wives, mothers.
~ Sophocles
Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.
~ Sophocles
Laius was killed, they say, by certain travelers.
~ Sophocles
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~ John Oller
What has been the biggest cause of bloodshed? In fact, what has been the leading cause of death, in America over the last thirty eight years? Murder? Approximately 700,000 persons have died homicidal deaths in that period. That's a tragedy, certainly. Compare, however, the number of Americans who have died at the hands of a murderer, to the number of Americans in the last forty years who have died at the hands of abortionists – fifty five million.
~ John Price
They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.
~ John Sandford
Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.
~ John Sandford
Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.
~ John Webster
Do you not weep? Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
~ John Webster
My cool judgement is, that if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing since letters were in the world were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this; and that, should a Prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom, and murder of all kinds, Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light compared to that man.
~ John Wesley
What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the fact of the old Republic; that the glorious word concealed the deed of horror; that the appearance of tradition and order cloaked the reality of corruption and chaos; that the call to liberty and freedom closed the minds, even of those who called, to the facts of privation, suppression, and sanctioned murder.
~ John Williams
I'm just telling you, Tommy. He wasn't supposed to go and do those things in the war that he had to do. People aren't supposed to murder people. And he did, and he did awful things, and awful things happened to him, and he couldn't live inside himself, Tommy. That's what I'm trying to say. Other men could do it, but he couldn't, it ruined him, and—
~ Elizabeth Strout
There's a reason for killing everyone, if you know them well enough.
~ Ellery Queen
Bitterness is tantamount to unforgivingness just like hatred is tantamount to murder. Thus, choose forgivingness and happiness over bitterness. Moreover, choose love and compassion over hatred.
~ Emeasoba George
What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.
~ Emil Cioran