Quotes about killing
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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.
“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“The society killed Kendra."
…
Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”
Source: Gatsby Girls
“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
Source: Tithe
“If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?”
Source: Magic Burns
“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”
“But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?”
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”
Source: Suicide Notes
“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
When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks
Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)
“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”
Source: Definitely Dead
“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”
Source: Steelheart
“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”
Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart [With Headphones]
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
I Have A Pony (1985)
“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.”
“Well…yes.”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance
“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
Source: Farnham's Freehold
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Source: The Goldfinch
Source: The Last Werewolf
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.
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”
Source: Embrace the Night
“It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”
Source: Kill You Twice
Source: Sugar Daddy
Source: Magic Rises
“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s