Quotes About Patricide

It really made me wish I was Roman or Greek, you know? A classical Greek god would have killed his lying, cheating father and then given him forgiveness. And a classical Greek god would have better abs, too. That's what Greek gods are all about, you know? Patricide and low body fat.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

All men must cast away the great blasphemer, the curse now brought to light by the gods, the son of Laius—I, my father's son!

Patricide. The stuff of the great operas. U2's music was never really rock 'n' roll. Under its contemporary skin it's opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won't accept he's a baritone. A small man singing giant songs.

Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again.

Because he's self-aware. He's committing patricides and matricides, but they're very conscious. He's not displacing. He knows he's implicating his parents. He knows his killings are symbolic—even illustrations of Freudian thought. That's why he thinks he's so much smarter than other killers. His killings don't divulge who he is. They affirm who he is. They're part of his self-definition.

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

Zeus' thunderbolts still smelled of singed flesh and patricide.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.