Quotes About Slaying
Myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength, and the bringing of solar light into the world. Slaying monsters is slaying the dark things. Myths grab you somewhere down inside.
~ Joseph Campbell
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Inhuman, saith I? Nay: the beasts of the field and forest, lacking all humanity, e'en the most terrible among these, slay not by long deliberate slaying and for lust. Human, then, indeed, were those fell crimes.
~ Ray Russell
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Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
~ Cassandra Clare
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I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.
~ J Mascis
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How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don't, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun's wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She's unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— "Okay, I get it!" I yelled.
~ Rick Riordan
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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A manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper… so many I've killed.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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They murdered him.
~ Robert Cormier
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I'm the sommelier of slaying
~ Alex White
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One through the heart, one through the head. Then you know he's really dead.
~ Robert Muchamore
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.
~ Sophocles
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We found a city of women. Not one Eldren man had remained. Not one boy over twelve. Not one old man of any age. We had slain them all at sea.
~ Michael Moorcock
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the sad emptiness, upon slaying the villain who had brought madness upon his village, of learning that vengeance was not justice and that justice was to be had nowhere in the world;
~ Michael Swanwick
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Captain Ahab had evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand, monomaniac object.
~ Herman Melville
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Love (they say) sometimes flies, sometimes walks, runs with one, creeps with another, warms a third, burns a fourth, wounding some, and slaying others. In one moment it begins, performs and concludes its career; lays siege in the morning to a fortress which is surrendered before night, there being no fortress that can withstand its power." —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
~ Susan Meissner
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My phone dings with a text. Mom: I bought you a rape whistle. There was a gangland slaying on your street last week. "No, there wasn't, Mom!" I yell, strangling the steering wheel with even more gusto. "There was no gangland slaying!
~ Kristan Higgins
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I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
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Kindly confirm: If someone's evil, then killing them isn't murder. It's SLAYING, and not only legal but encouraged. Correct?
~ Laini Taylor
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Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.
~ Cassandra Clare
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Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.
~ Malebo Sephodi
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He does, but it turns out it was his brother who did the slaying," said Boar. "But that one's a lost cause, your great and powerful lordship. And the Dragonslayer has been utterly disgraced. Neither one is the hero you're looking for.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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I must ask, without knowing whom I should ask, if it is really necessary to love the man who slays me; to ask who among you is slaying me. My life, stronger than myself, replies that it wants revenge at all costs. It warns me that I must struggle like someone drowning, even if I should perish in the end. If it be so, so be it.
~ Clarice Lispector
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You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
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