Killing Quotes

1591 Killing quotes by 1134 unique authors

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The… — Ernest Hemingway
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
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned… — Anthony Burgess
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out… — Charles Bukowski
if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood.… — Henry Rollins
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. — Alice Walker
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson
There will be killing till the score is paid. — Homer
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… — Richard Bach
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees — Joe Strummer
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them,… — Samuel Beckett
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,”… — Susanna Clarke
I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued:… — Marian Keyes
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. — Jane Goodall
Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or… — Rick Riordan
Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man… — John Steinbeck
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. — Kobayashi Issa
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. — Elie Wiesel
When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing. — Mark Mills
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg… — Tom Holt
Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate? — Elie Wiesel
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but… — Ishmael Beah

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