Murderous Quotes

“8 April 1891
The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.

This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!”
― Jean Lorrain, Monsieur de Phocas

“...she was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.”
― R.L. Mathewson, Tall, Dark & Heartless

“You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. ”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You're an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature,' ...”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.”
― John King, The Football Factory

“I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Why kill a man and be blamed for killing him forever, one who would have died anyway without you lifting a finger”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“...and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Her life had a fearful symmetry at times.
Fierce was its construction, and within its
color and contour lay all the calamity of madness. Violence crept in with stillness or exploded with the ferocity of youth.”
― Christopher Stanfield, The Bloody Rose

“I do bad things to terrible people. But I do them because I enjoy them. And that's something you'll never really understand.”
― Christopher Stanfield, The Bloody Rose

“Chaos quickly threw up his hands. 'You're not in danger. I'm here because a friend of ours needs help- your help. He's about to make a horrible decision and you need to change his mind before it's too late to save him. I'm not here to hurt you, Evangeline.'

'Then why don't you get the hell away from her,' growled Archer.

Evangeline hadn't heard him approach. She just turned and suddenly Archer- Jacks- was there. It was easier to think of him as Jacks as she watched him, striding swiftly in between the crates, glaring at Chaos with murder in his eyes.

'I don't want you near her. Ever.' Jacks pulled out his sword, and before Chaos had time to speak, he shoved the blade right through his chest.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Thomas finally tired of playing with me mentally and moved into phase two of his obsession to rid himself of me. I was informed continually that resistance would be futile, and there was no way to escape”
― Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

“He hadn't set foot in the Tower since his apprenticeship days, but Antain felt it was high time to visit the Sisters, who had been, for him, a sort of short-term family----albeit odd, standoffish, and, admittedly, murderous. Still. Family is family...”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Iconography aside, it is easy to see what someone is trying to communicate when he pairs a lady with a snake. Alexander the Great's mother - as murderous and maniacal a Macedonian princess who ever lived - kept serpents as pets. She used them to terrify men. Before her came Eve, Medusa, Electra, and the Erinyes; when a woman teams up with a snake, a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life