Murderer Quotes

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

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Running, Risk

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Murder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

  Alice Sebold

  Men, Monsters, Frightening

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• Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Despair, Unseen

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.24

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• It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Fall, Errors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.

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• Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer

  V. V. S. Laxman

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• I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

  Albert Einstein

  Tea, Crime, Responsible

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• In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983". Book by Colin Wilson, Introductory Essay, p. xiv, 1983.

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• The soul of a murderer is blind

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Blind

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

  Allen Iverson

  Suits, Stills

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• Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body..... There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Passion, Mad, Soul

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• Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

  Russell Brand

  Down And, Patient, Dies

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from Nov 11, 2012

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• He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow

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• The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

  Charles Starkweather

  Hate, People, Serial Killer

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• Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Death, Badass

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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• Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

  John Mortimer

  Peaceful, World, Persons

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

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• Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Animal, Blood, Joy

  Michael J Sullivan (2013). “The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria Chronicles”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

  Max Anders

  Compassion, Sometimes, Forgotten

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• No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

  John the Apostle

  Abiding, Eternal Life, Eternal

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

  Agatha Christie

  Funny Friend, Old Friends, Literature

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Style, Fancy, Murder

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 1 (1955)

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

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• I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

  Erik Larson

  Inspiration, Serial Killer, Devil

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