Quotes about killing
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“Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'
"Oh my God," Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

God

“What’s going on? (Astrid)
Not much. Some invincible asshole is trying to kill me. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD”

Holly Black book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

Reading

“I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."
"I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."
"I am your loyal servant and I just did."
"Refusal means death."
"Kill me then.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Death

“It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Moonsong

“They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I love you, you see… and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted……. Or not obviously”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Love, World, Fear, Way

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them.”

Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Time

“We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.”

William Faulkner book Intruder in the Dust

Source: Intruder in the Dust

Time

“Sorry we’re late,” Jason said. “Is this the guy who needs killing?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Guy

“Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.”

Kohta Hirano (1973) Japanese manga artist

People

“P. S. Do no violence. Kill no one.”

Luis Alberto Urrea (1955) Mexican-American poet

The Hummingbird's Daughter

“I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone.
"Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can… bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too.

~ Jericho a. k. a. Cratus”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Fools, Mood

“I want to lay my kill at your feet.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Thinking, Time

“A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

Wolf

“We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the
one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Men, Cry

“If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Hunger, Hate, Game

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnSouled

Hope

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

World, Suicide

“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock

Time

“Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

God

“It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 147)

“It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Children

“By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Love, School, Way, Guy

“You can’t kill me with a gun. (Thanatos)
I know, but it’s fun as hell just shooting you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Hell

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love, Understanding

“If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way… Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, Hate, Way

“They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”

Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor

Death, Indifference

“As Nietzsche said, ‘that which doesn’t kill you– ’(Alexion)
Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you’re a Dark-Hunter, just a good day’s sleep. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Sleep

“Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Heart

“It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Personality

“You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.”

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

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Flying daggers don't kill people, Chloe thought, leaping sidewise at the last minute to avoid one, grabbing the pedestrian rail. People kill people.”

Celia Thomson (1950) American writer of fiction for children and young adults

Source: The Fallen

People, Flying

“I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Fear

“I would really like to know", he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Way, Time

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
"No. They only say that I'm good in the sack."
"They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.”

Robert B. Parker (1932–2010) American crime writer

Reality

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Who runs a combination?" Keith asked. "With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

People, Cats

“While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

Business, Personality

“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer

Happiness, People, Evil

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Personality

“We’ll be back!” he snarled.
It was really Ari’s voice.
Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Boy

“Fang was going to kill me. And after I was dead, he would kill me again.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Dead

“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”

Frank E. Peretti book House

Source: House

God, People, Personality

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Life, Waiting

“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Life, Kiss

“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

Hope

“(If plan KTB kill the bastard) didn't work, well, gray would resort to Plan B: Operation Oh Sh”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Jewel of Atlantis

“If you die of pneumonia, I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident
(Hale)”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Guy

“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger

Girl

“A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Life

“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

People

“Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder…”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

“I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

A message he would variously write or post on his guitar, beginning in 1941.
Variant: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,… it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Light, Housing

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Stupidity, Fools

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Feeling, Thinking

“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: The Renegade Hunter

Question, Problem

“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Life

“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

No. 40.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

Happiness, Heart, Country

“But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Kiss

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Love, Life, Happiness, World

“Seriously? You won’t help me?”
“Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.”

Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

Help

“Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you."
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Way, Thinking, Hurt

“As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development (March 2002) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2002/ing/f210302i.html

Hunger

“They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” Percy called down.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Water

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

Love, Life

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Aaron Allston (1960–2014) American writer

Hate

“The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Cars

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Thinking, Parting

“The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs…. It´s us. Only us.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

God, Fate, Children, World

“I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.”

Barry Eisler book A Clean Kill in Tokyo

Source: A Clean Kill in Tokyo

God, Parting, Dead

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men

“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands…”

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

Source: Erak's Ransom

“I couldn’t leave Total behind.”
“Total?” Iggy asked.
“That’s what his card said,” Angel explained.
“Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us and kill us in our sleep,” Fang said.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Dogs, Angels, Sleep

“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Light

“He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.”
“She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Hate

“How do I defeat Apophis?”
“I’m so glad you asked!” Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. “Unfortunately, I can’t tell you.”
I glanced at Walt. “Do you want to kill him, or should I?”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Home

“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Final line
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

God

“Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.”

Anthony Horowitz book Stormbreaker

Source: Stormbreaker

Life, School, Time

“Don't stop kissing me, vampire, or I will kill you.”

Kresley Cole book No Rest for the Wicked

Source: No Rest for the Wicked

Kiss

“Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared. […]It's slow. It rots out your guts.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Men, Failure, Fight

“If at first you don't succeed, kill your opponent.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Firstlife

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”

Katherine Neville book The Eight

Source: The Eight

Way

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Quotes about killing
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