Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

‘If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every...

Here’s a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life – possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his...

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed...

I’m thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

If there are two witnesses to a murder, you and the guy you killed, I’d say your secret is safe. I won’t say nothing to nobody.

Who are you and why are you here?”I’m here to kill you.”Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

He was born after me, and he died before me. I gave him life, and I killed him. He was an idea, and considerably harder to stab than grandpa.

La massa aizzata si forma in vista di una meta velocemente raggiungibile. La meta le è nota, precisamente designata e vicina. Essa persegue il suo scopo, è impossibile distoglierla. Propone di uccidere e sa chi...

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a...

She was learning that being with Slade was like riding a roller coaster. Good news one minute and bad news the next. She could only imagine what this restaurant must be like.

He expects us to kill him,” Palomides said to Dinadan.”Some people are so demanding,” Dinadan replied. “Considering we’ve only just met, I mean.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Well, as to that, all I’ll say is, you can’t take out a fellow’s heart before he’s ready to give it up.

Cory wondered if maybe some people were better off dead. When you’re dead you don’t have to face the horrors of life, whether it’s striving to be the best, dealing with something bad you or...

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

That sounds weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

Remember how it feels, Silent One. That murderous rage, and how it makes your blood boil. Remember, and let it carry you the rest of the way—only, learn to freeze it, as well, because the...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

Ah. And then you kill him.””No,” Arkwright replied patiently. “We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{…}

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead… I don’t make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp,...

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

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...

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.

Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de...

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.page 155

Don’t kill animals! Kill people who kill animals! Those animals must understand that murder will not be tolerated! Also, the animals must understand that murder will not be tolerated!

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.

I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.She had jumped back – not in remorse, but to keep the...

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l’être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

I can’t imagine you could convict someone of murder on the basis of a person like that.

On the whole, we’re a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that...

If a person is accused of murder and there is a warrant out for their arrest, we would arrest them. We’ll look at it on a case-by-case basis. It makes good sense.

He’d kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur’s reasons. Of course, you’ll be just as dead.

Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it’s conventions. He doubted whether Macklefield [the murder victim’s Will...

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their...

There isn’t any question that this is a murder. We believe that there were other people involved in this, and we expect to make more arrests.

You just couldn’t give it a rest, could you, Sue? Had to keep badgering me. Snooping and poking around. I hope you’re satisfied, now that you’ve ripped my guts out.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?”Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, “Yes, I’m afraid of spiders.””Were you always?””What are you, a psychiatrist?”Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine’s eyes on him,...

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be...