Killing Quotes

1591 Killing quotes by 1134 unique authors

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of… — George Bernard Shaw
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind… — C.S. Lewis
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain… — Leonora Carrington
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. — Robert Jordan
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine. — William Shakespeare
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? — Bill Watterson
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's… — Charles Bukowski
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. — Albert Camus
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a… — James A. Baldwin
Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the… — Margaret Weis
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again… — Donald Miller
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. — Sylvia Plath
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity? — Steven Wright
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. — Will Christopher Baer
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die… — Margaret Atwood
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a… — Nhat Hanh
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier. — Chris d'Lacey
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God. — Frank Peretti
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support… — David Wojnarowicz
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up.… — Jerry Seinfeld
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. — Louis de Bernieres
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke

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