Crime Quote by Kōbō Abe Download Open image ““If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.”” — Kōbō Abe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.” — Zeeshan Ahmed Copy Share Image
“If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.” — Tania Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“It was like giving a homeless kid a night in a luxury hotel. It only made a bad situation worse. Once a person knows… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
“Life is full of simple pleasures; if one does not know how to enjoy them, one would easily miss out on it.” — Felisa Tan Copy Share Image
“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Pleasure often has a way of tempting you with more but always leaves you with less.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“No one loses their innocence. It is either taken...or given away freely.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.” — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“Injuries to the body, especially the face, are not treated simply as problems of form. We should rather speak of themas belonging in the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
