Quotes about killing
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“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”

Jonathan Maberry (1958) writer

Source: Patient Zero

World

“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed.
This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

Perfection

“You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Chase

Love, Fight

“I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Communication, Fish

“There are some things to die for but none to kill for.”

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution

The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro."
"Ditto. And don't kiss me.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Kiss, Hurt

“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
Source: And Still I Rise (1978)

Hate

“What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Problem

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

-- uncited source”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Lie, Victory

“Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Fate

“No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Evil, Time

“Housework can kill you if done right.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream…”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Love, Happiness, Feeling

“Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Variant: I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

People

“Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-"
Wood… poison."
No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”

William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.

Thinking

“What would killing the Elders result in?"
"Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Fear

“claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself
shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Love, Girl

“Really? Are you going to ask him to be your partner?" Isabelle asked. "It's like cotillion, this partners business, except with killing."
"So, exactly like a cotillion," said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Business

“Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone."

"It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Shoe, Time

“It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Love, Learning, Time

“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

Edward P. Jones The Known World

Source: The Known World

Baby

“Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“No, you don’t need to help me. But if you don’t, there’s nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can’t kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell… forever.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Thinking, Help

“Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

People

“The truth hung heavy in the air between us, a near tangible thing. I; d kill for you, give up everything I own for you… but I won't give you up.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Truth

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”

Doris Day (1922–2019) American actress, singer, and animal rights activist

Beauty, Animals

“Why would I kill to know what she's thinking right now?
Probably because I enjoy killing.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Thinking

“Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

Age, Girl, Time, Waiting

“Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Hate, Way

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”

John Grisham book The Rainmaker

Source: The Rainmaker

“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”

David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Time, Heart

“Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess."

"Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”

John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

People

“Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Stupidity, Jerk

“I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

These reportedly, were his last words, to Sergeant Jaime Terán, who in different accounts had either volunteered to be his executioner, or by most accounts, had been selected by lot (9 October 1967). Because of the many different reports that have arisen, much confusion and uncertainty exists about his actual last words. His last words to Colonel Arnaldo Saucedo Parada, head of intelligence of the Eighth Division who delivered the official report on Che's final moments were reported as: "I knew you were going to shoot me; I should never have been taken alive. Tell Fidel that this failure does not mean the end of the revolution, that it will triumph elsewhere. Tell Aleida to forget this, remarry and be happy, and keep the children studying. Ask the soldiers to aim well."
Variant translations:
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
Capture and Death (1967)

“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.

“What is that?” she asked.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Quotes, Sleep, Princess

“To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Forgetting

“Oh, gods, you’re mated! I really hope it’s to Aimee. (Bride)
Thankfully so. Otherwise I’d have had to kill me some ho and then beat Fang senseless. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

God, Hope

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Life, Men, God

“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Death, Penalty

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

People, Time

“When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

“You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)”

Janet Evanovich book Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Source: Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Feeling, Thinking

“Rhage nodded. “The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other.”
“That depends more on your mouth than any floor plan,” Phury said with a grin.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Variant: The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage
"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury
Source: Dark Lover

Dependency

“[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Guy, Sun, Fight, Hurt

“Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

War

“Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted.
"Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.”

Darren Shan book Lord of the Shadows

Source: Lord of the Shadows

“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

People

“Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.”

Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

God, Boy, Summer

“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”

Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory

Source: The Wasp Factory

People

“You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Way, Kiss, Evil

“Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill…”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Love

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
Context: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death, War, Drink, Beer

“Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Flowers, Sleep

“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Life, Death, Revenge, Time

“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

Hope

“Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Imagination, Animals

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Error, Universe

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope, Time, Dead

“The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

History, Personality

“I lied. I need your help."
"Who are we killing?"
"Do you have a pen?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Help

“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Hope

“I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am…. It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: Twisted

“To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Love, Problem, Perfection

“She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

Fight

“Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Kiss

“My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh…”

Garth Nix book Sir Thursday

Source: Sir Thursday

Parent

“I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Love

“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."”

Noam Chomsky book 9-11

9-11, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20061015103427/http://indymedia.org.nz/usermedia/application/2/9-11.pdf <br class="br">Quotes 2000s, 2001

War

“So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved."
"Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people."
"I know. That's why you should do it."
"No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

People, Problem

“When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.

This made her rare. This made her precious.

This made him… love her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Love, Evil

“I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Peace

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

Time

“If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.”

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

World, Peace, Time

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather

“Annabeth jogged towards us, giving me one of those annoyed expressions like, If you get yourself killed, I’m going to murder you.”

Rick Riordan book The Crown of Ptolemy

Source: The Crown of Ptolemy

“Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

World, History, Intelligence, Problem

“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Boy

“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
Source: Political Writings

“I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Food, Dreams, Animals

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Way

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

War

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

Star

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.'
Now that would be a neat trick.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, Cry

“Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

People, Question, Thinking

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

World, Problem, Peaceful

“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”

Kate Chopin book The Story of an Hour

Source: The Story of an Hour

Disease, Heart, Joy

“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Hate