Famous Quotes on Murder That Illuminate Dark Realities

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde

Where there is a sea there are pirates. – Greek Proverb

If you murder someone, they won?t be able to annoy you anymore. – Unknown

Revenge is sweet and not fattening. – Alfred Hitchcock

Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one. – Stephen King

Exercise is murder on the body. – Oscar Wilde

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Murderer: One who is presumed innocent until proven insane. – Lionel Fisher

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first murder trial would be quite correct in concluding that all Earthmen are cutthroats. – Fredric Brown

The strong do what they can. The weak suffer what they must. – Thucydides

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. – W. H. Auden

One murderer makes a villain, millions a hero. – Beilby Porteus

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her. – Oscar Wilde

Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession. – Theodore Bundy

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people… have to walk out of the shadows. – Alan Moore

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Octave Mirbeau

Everyone?s worst fear is not just death but being ignored after you die. – Agatha Christie

The perfect murderer, in other words, is one who executes and then empathizes. – Alfred Hitchcock

It is more reassuring to be killed than ignored. – John Steinbeck

You can’t murder the murderer without becoming just like him. – Markus Zusak

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. – George Henry Lewes

When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then ? he needn?t hope to find himself again. – Robert Bolt

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. – Paulo Coelho

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

You must be very careful when you judge people. If you ever think some person is evil, remember that it is only your perspective that makes you see things this way. – H.P. Lovecraft

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. – Friedrich Nietzsche

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. – John Marsden

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. – Henry Fielding

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. – Epicurus

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession. – Thomas Harris

You can’t not look cool with a crossbow. – Norman Reedus

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Octave Mirbeau

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. – Seneca

Taking a life in a just cause is not murder; it is the definition of justice. – Tom Clancy

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. – Karl Lagerfeld

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. – Edgar Allan Poe

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter ? an act. – Vera Nazarian

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. – Paul Gauguin

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold

For centuries, the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. – Albert Camus

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. – J.R.R. Tolkien

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire

In times of great stress or adversity, it?s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca