1,246 Quotes About Murder
- Author Iris Murdoch
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How hardening to the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into a bundle of struggling rags and pain.
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- Author Clare Urbanski
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My advice: give it up now and be glad you failed the first time. Look at me, I’ve only killed one person and look what it’s turned me into.
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- Author Edward Falco
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Boys. It’s late. If you’re not gonna kill me, what do you want?
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- Author Helen Dunmore
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I suppose it's easier to kill people if you can pretend to yourself that they're not really people at all.
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- Author Philip Ridley
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Men we have never met took our son. They took him without our express permission. They tortured him then they … killed him. And there is no understanding it. There is no meaning. No coming to terms with it. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever. We will wake up every day for the rest of our lives and we will breathe razor blades and we will swim through bleach. And there is no escape from this. There is no comfort. There is just … blades and bleach. Until we die.
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- Author Priscus
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Whether well or not, I do not know. But know that you have cut off your right hand with your left. [A Roman Senator to Valentinian III after the latter had murdered the general Aetius.]
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- Author Tanya Tagaq
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Murder can heal if applied sparingly. Murder can feed us. Life murders us every day.
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- Author B.J. Daniels
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A gentleman would leave.” He chuckled at that, his gaze locking with hers. “You and I are way past that, Annie.
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- Author William Faulkner
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The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.
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