Quotes about killing
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Calvin Coolidge photo

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)

Winston S. Churchill photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Henry Miller photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Douglas Rushkoff photo
Richelle Mead photo
James Patterson photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Markus Zusak photo

“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”

Source: The Book Thief

Cassandra Clare photo
Richelle Mead photo
Rick Riordan photo

“If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Body

Emily Brontë photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Anthony Kiedis photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo

“Why are you smiling?'
'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.”

Variant: Wilem looked at me 'Why are you smiling?'

"I'm relieved", I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Anthony Doerr photo

“Who knew love could kill you?”

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Ambrose Bierce photo

“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Epigrams

Jodi Picoult photo
Karen Marie Moning photo

“Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Zora Neale Hurston photo
Will Rogers photo

“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
Variant: You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Katharine Hepburn photo
Joseph Campbell photo

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

William Goldman photo
Sarah Vowell photo
Richard Matheson photo
Joshua Ferris photo
Holly Black photo
Grant Morrison photo

“We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Stephen Colbert photo

“Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Diana Gabaldon photo
D.H. Lawrence photo
Jim Butcher photo
Cesare Pavese photo
Anne Rice photo
Frederick Douglass photo

“I had as well be killed running as die standing”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Kim Harrison photo
Richelle Mead photo
Jim Butcher photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“You always kill the one you love.”

Source: Fight Club

Scott Lynch photo
Scarlett Thomas photo

“Routine kills creative thought.”

Source: PopCo

Philip K. Dick photo

“If I had known it was harmless
I would have killed it myself.”

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 6 (p. 94)

Stephen King photo

“He killed them with their love”

Source: The Green Mile

David Foster Wallace photo
Michael Pollan photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“What don't kill me…
Had better start running!”

Source: City of Glass

Rachel Caine photo

“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”

Source: Daughters of Darkness

Jim Butcher photo
Anne Lamott photo
Carrie Vaughn photo
Yann Martel photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Rick Riordan photo
Derek Landy photo
Sara Shepard photo

“We killed an innocent girl”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Twisted

Bram Stoker photo
Brandon Mull photo
Jeffrey Eugenides photo
James M. Cain photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Brian Jacques photo
David Sedaris photo

“I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

Interview with Robert David Sullivan<!-- published/quoted where? -->
Context: "I love things made out of animals," Sedaris says, holding a knife with a hoof for a handle. "It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.'"

William Goldman photo
John Steinbeck photo

“Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.”

Source: Of Mice and Men

Markus Zusak photo

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

Source: The Book Thief

Immaculée Ilibagiza photo

“They can only kill us once.”

Immaculée Ilibagiza (1972) Rwandan writer

Source: Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Rick Riordan photo
Rick Riordan photo
Anaïs Nin photo
Rick Riordan photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Brandon Sanderson photo