“Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on… — Brian Jones Copy Share Image
“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall… — Griffin Jay Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to get statistics on violent death -- what do you count as murder? When people starve to death… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Then his fingers trembled on her ankle—tightened around her foot. His head shifted, turning toward her. With a growl, she crashed the… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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![“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me, 'There's no conspiracy, Lily. It's just life.' How do they come to think this way--that death is life? That unnatural death and murder are somehow a natural part of life?” quote by Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/dean-koontz-118_art-of-life_to-the-police-lily-said-speaking-of-five_884534.jpg)
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