Murder quotations

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◆ rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

- Patricia Cornwell99

◆ Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father's father.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

- Patrick Ness99

◆ Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

- Alice Sebold99

◆ Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.

- Jill Conner Browne99

◆ I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

- Johnny Cash99

◆ The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

- Dmitry Merezhkovsky99

◆ Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock99

◆ The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

- Laurell K. Hamilton99

◆ Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.

- Vladimir Nabokov99

◆ Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

- Sue Grafton99