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Killing Quotes (page 72)

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you! Fyodor Dostoevsky
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live. Joseph Heller
Charles Bukowski quote: "Find what you love and let it kill you."
Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski
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 species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy. Terry Prachett
Rudyard Kipling quote: "More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the..."
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. Rudyard Kipling
...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Raymond Chandler quote: "Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard."
Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard. Raymond Chandler
The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in. Kurt Vonnegut
Sylvia Day quote: "I'd kill for you, give up everything I own for you.... but I..."
I'd kill for you, give up everything I own for you.... but I won't give you up. Sylvia Day
Leo Tolstoy quote: "In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on..."
In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially. Leo Tolstoy
Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song. (2) Zora Neale Hurston
Larry McMurtry quote: "A man that will go along with six killings is making his..."
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow. Larry McMurtry
You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don’t love someone for your whole life – that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends … But you can hate someone for your whole life – provided he’s always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart. Umberto Eco
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman

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