Murderous Quotes

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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death… — Homer
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment… — Kurt Vonnegut
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking. — Stanley Kunitz
What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous? — Steve Aylett
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,… — John Steinbeck
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the… — Ernest Hemingway
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can… — Albert Camus
But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. — Louise Penny
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your… — Katie MacAlister
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my… — Jennifer Donnelly
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling… — Mark Z. Danielewski
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more… — William Shakespeare
a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff — Jennifer Egan
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. — Edward Abbey
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. — Suzanne Collins
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even… — Stephen King
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud

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