Killing Quotes (page 43)

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• work
• humanity
• human

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. Ayn Rand

• soul
• my soul
• flesh

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. Sylvia Plath

• light
• rags
• dressed

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill. Leonard Cohen

• she
• today
• confidence

Our hero's unreasoning rage was fed by a not unreasonable jealousy. It was clear to him that Zuleika had forgotten his existence. To-day, as soon as he had killed her love, she had shown him how much less to her was his love than the crowd's. And now again it was only the crowd she cared for. He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one lad's elbow, a threepenny-bit from between... Max Beerbohm

• political
• manly
• politely

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill

• empathy
• mindfulness
• mind

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. Daniel Goleman

• eating
• sometimes
• friends

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. Steve Irwin

• world
• tears
• house

Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is the bull always killed?"? "Yes. Sometimes a bull is timid, finding himself in so strange a place, and he stands trembling, or tries to retreat. Then everybody despises him for his cowardice and wants him punished and made ridiculous; so they hough him from behind, and it is the funniest thing in the world to see him hobbling around on his severed legs; the whole vast house goes into hurricanes of... Mark Twain

• shadow
• manly
• small

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. George R. R. Martin

• hope
• evening
• saying

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion. Suzanne Collins

• humanity
• understanding
• science

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. Leo Tolstoy

• kindness
• attention
• moving

That's certainly a problem. But that's not what I was thinking of. It's just that you are so soft, so fragile. I have to mind my actions every moment that we're together so that I don't hurt you. I could kill you quite easily, Bella, simply by accident." His voice had become just a soft murmur. He moved his icy palm to rest it against my cheek. "If I was too hast? if for one second I wasn't paying enough attention, I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by... Stephenie Meyer

• flower
• thoughts
• mind

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. Sylvia Plath

• space
• wellness
• anyone

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. Dave Eggers

• dad
• soldier
• world

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? Bill Watterson