“It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed.”
Arnold Ridley (1896–1984) Playwright, actor
Biography on Spartacus
Source: War and Peace
“It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed.”
Arnold Ridley (1896–1984) Playwright, actor
Biography on Spartacus
“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The killer of souls does not kill a hundred souls. He kills his own soul a hundred times.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Voces (1943)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Quote about Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993) p. 267.
1920s
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
José Ángel Gutiérrez (1944) American academic
page 10523 of HOUSE OF REPRESE.NTATIVES-Monday, April 28, 1969. This is on page 27/99 of the part 8-5 PDF https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt8/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1969-pt8-5.pdf ( archive http://archive.is/753l4). According to Behnken this was said "a few weeks later" to clarify the preceding MAYO rally quote. Gonzalez describes it as "Last Tuesday, at Kingsville" indicating it was said 22 April 1969.
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer from Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), The Sentence
Context: Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—
Unless... Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
Katherine Neville book The Eight
Source: The Eight