Murder Quotes
1327 quotes by 908 authors
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All…
— Henry Rollins
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When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on…
— Mike Carey
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
— George Eliot
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
— George Eliot
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I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
— Denis Leary
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page…
— H P Lovecraft
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I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
— Werner Herzog
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How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of…
— Charles Yu
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Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the…
— R. Scott Bakker
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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag.…
— Cassandra Clare
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And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the…
— Tim Wise
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Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will…
— Richelle Mead
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The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of…
— Janet Frame
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
— Jim Morrison
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I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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