1,246 Quotes About Murder

Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word ‘murder’ made us mumble as much as the word ‘masturbation.

Nick heard the glass set down on a hard surface.  His inclination was to turn.  To watch.  But there was something in the manners of it all.  Like he was bound by tradition.  He couldn’t turn to the man who’s wife he was fucking that he found dead days later.  Nick wondered if the guy could have done it.  Slipped into the property and hung her.

We're told that wild animals don't murder one another, only people do. In the animal kingdom there is supposedly an "I won't kill you if you don't kill me" arrangement between members of the same species. Aggression is all bluff and ritual, for nobody wants to get seriously hurt. I was thinking about a wild dog named Wodan tonight. Maybe the Falcon males hadn't meant to kill him. But I just saw murder today for sure. Animals kill their own kind, and they do it on purpose.

If you've got a Mexican last name, you've got a strike against you.

The first kill is the one you remember—but the hundredth? That is what history will.

Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize” with every woman in this book? I don’t think our obsession stems from the fact that we are all secretly violent, using the serial killer to enact our darkest fantasies. I think it comes from our enduring love of stories.

As sweet a girl as ever trod this earth. She garrotted her four sisters with a cheese wire in order to have a bed to herself, though.

The USA is a country in distress.

The police routinely getting away with murder is a reflection of a corrupt legal system.