Quotes about kill
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“If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.

“Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“You killed more people than anybody in history."

"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

People, History

“The society killed Kendra."
…
Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

“When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Dogs, Sport, Wolf

“I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No… not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Sleep, Study

“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."

That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Waiting

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Gatsby Girls

Drink

“Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Source: Haiku

Fear

“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Kiss

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

Cats

“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

“Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d survived his mother’s attack – and he’d made them wish they’d never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Revenge, Sister

“I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta)
Yeah, right. (Aiden)
Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Upon the Midnight Clear

Way

“If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Time

“SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers?
Those are things I'm not good at.
Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something?
Piece o'cake”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Waiting

“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

Help

“I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Rage

“My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Books

“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love, Passion

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (p. 276)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Children, Time

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Sadness, Feeling

“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Men

“You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you."
"I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Dragon Heir

Love, Lying

“But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?”

Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars

Source: The Looking Glass Wars

Cats

“How did you find me here?
If I was blind, I would see you.
Stay with me.
Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Way

“Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

People, Idea

“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Heart

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“You weren't able to talk sense into him?"
Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."
I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Death, Sense

“Hesitation will get you killed.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

“Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski”

Christine Feehan book Dark Demon

Source: Dark Demon

Time

“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Variant: There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
Source: V for Vendetta (1989)

Idea, Thinking

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

People

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”

August Strindberg Miss Julie

Source: Miss Julie

Life, Mathematics, Bee, Madness

“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Love

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

People, Faith, Religion, Confidence

“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

God

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

Charlaine Harris book Definitely Dead

Source: Definitely Dead

Way

“You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal”

Martin Amis book Money

Source: Money

Way, Time, Fight, Dependency

“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Passion

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.

I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Love

“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Dreams, Sex

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Learning

“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

Pain, Problem, Forgetting

“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart [With Headphones]

Thinking

“What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

People, Feeling

“The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Time

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

Children, School

“I thought only a wooden stake through the heart killed a vampire. (Amanda)
A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything. And if it doesn't, run like hell. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Hell, Heart

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Love, Fish, Dead

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

I Have A Pony (1985)

Cats

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

Men, Justice, Revenge

“I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

Love

“its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Corelli's Mandolin

Idea

“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Flanders Panel

Source: The Flanders Panel

War, Art

“So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.”
“Well…yes.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Hurt

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold

Books, Parting

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Thinking, Parting

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

“We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Life, Chance, Time

“There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.”

Brian Jacques book Mossflower

Source: Mossflower

World

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

Glen Duncan (1965) British writer

Source: The Last Werewolf

Lie

“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Way, Animals

“My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Life

“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"… You never, ever say something like that.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

Sister

“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night