Murder Quote by Anthony Boucher

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and…

— Padre Pio

“I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were…

— Joseph Conrad

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“for the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much…

— Teresa of Ávila

“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell-but…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“the Devil danced all over the place in his beautiful eyes. You never knew what kind of surprise he had for you, just to…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and…

— Ronald Steel

“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to seize their…

— George Eliot

“All thoughts, feelings, every disposition of the heart tending to destroy love and create enmity, proceed from the Devil.”

— St. John of Kronstadt

“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky