Quotes about kill
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“He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body… unfortunately he had run out of room.”

Source: Scorpia Rising

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you…. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: Queen of Dreams

Feeling, Hurt

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act II, scene V
Source: The Real Thing (1982)
Context: Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Music, History

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

Philip G. Zimbardo book The Lucifer Effect

Source: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

World

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said.
"God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

God, Girl, Time

“But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–”
“I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

War, People, Pleasure

“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Love, Fear, Art

“I assure you he died screaming like a girl. (Daimon)
Oh, I am so offended by that. What is the deal with that sexist statement? I’m a female and I don’t scream. But I’ve killed many a male Daimon who did. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Girl

“Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“He snorted. “He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero.” None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Thinking

“Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Death, Waiting

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Understanding, Parting

“That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can’t follow them all the way to the end.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Way, Thinking, Time

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Star, Sun, Sea

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Love

“Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die,” he said. “You are not funny.” “I’m very funny.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

People, Way

“A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

People

“Knowledge is your weapon… Kill them with it.”

Jim Butcher Princeps' Fury

Source: Princeps' Fury

Knowledge

“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

As quoted in What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results (2003) by Howard Edson, p. 184
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

Communication

“The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Intelligence

“Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Love

“It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

People, Thinking, Personality

“Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Boy

“Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto)
Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting?” (Garreth)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Way

“This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”

John Steinbeck book The Pearl

Source: The Pearl

Thinking, Evil

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

Michael Morpurgo book War Horse

Source: War Horse

War, Color, Fight

“The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Variant: When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

“Do you think it would be quite so easy to kill them now that your weapon has been destroyed?' he sneered. 'No,' she said, frowning at him, 'Obviously not.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Thinking

“Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

Cats

“Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

People

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

“My name is David Charleston.
I kill people with super powers.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

People

“That wasn't very nice… I do believe you killed my hat.
~Kisuke Urahara”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Hope, Hope

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Pain

“Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Business

“I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Night

“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: Find what you love and let it kill you.

“Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

God

“Apparently, he’d killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore’s population. Doing my part for the environment.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Family, Parting

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”

Susan Kay Phantom

Source: Phantom

“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Books, Time

“That's right. Act likerejected. It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Time, Dead

“I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

Truth, Sense

“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 9: A View to a Death

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: A Mad Zombie Party

Strong

“It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds… at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Women, Men, World, Understanding

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Love, Fear

“But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.”
Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Happiness, Dead

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time, Future

“What better place to kill time than a library?”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Time

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”

Clare B. Dunkle book The Hollow Kingdom

Source: The Hollow Kingdom

Food, Thinking

“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.”

Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs, and Steel

Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

People, History, Learning, Time

“There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Variant: There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.
Source: Darkfever

Life, Fear, Hope

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

People, Thinking, Help

“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Pleasure, Feeling, Hurt

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”

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

Way, Girl, Boy, Idea

“And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him all his life. He thought Jace was Valentine’s favorite,” added Clary.
“Not to mention,” Magnus noted, “that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Life

“My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact

Pain, Heart

“I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Health, Suicide

“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

“Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.”

Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer

Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

“You know the saying, don’t kill the messenger? Hold that thought really, really close to your hearts. (Hermes)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Heart

“Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

Death, Sea

“Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"

Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."

"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

God, Heart, Dead

“I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn’t sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love

“I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

"September,", p. 413
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Context: If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

Money, World, Cars