Quotes About Murder

A true crime junkie’s favorite topic

Murder is a phenomenon that we have put under a microscope since Cain killed Abel. Why do people do it? Can you predict who will commit these violent acts? What happens in someone’s background that makes them a killer? If you’re a true crime junkie like I am, you have probably asked yourself many of these questions — macabre though they may be. These quotes are an exploration of murder — the most horrific, yet fascinating, crime there is.

1. “Murder will out, certain, it will not fail.” -Geoffrey Chaucer

2. “For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.” -William Shakespeare

3. “Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.” -Clarence Darrow

4. “One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.” -Beilby Porteus

5. “Once that you’ve decided on a killing First you make a stone of your heart And if you find that your hands are still willing Then you can turn a murder into art.” -The Police

6. “I met Murder on the way — He had a mask like Castlereagh.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley 7. “If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.” -Thomas de Quincey

8. “Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” -Marion Barry

9. “I’ve killed so many, I’m unable to remember them all.” -Arnfinn Nesset 10. “Sure I killed him. This is his suit I’m wearing now.” -Kenneth Neu

11. “I never killed a man who didn’t need it.” -Clay Allison

12. “Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.” -G.H. Lewes

13. “See how love and murder will out.” -William Congreve

14. “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.” -Saul Bellow

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

16. “Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one.” -Stephen King

17. “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

18. “Murder is terribly exhausting.” -Albert Camus

19. “I didn’t want murder. It’s all gone wrong.” -Stanley Kubrick

20. “I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

21. “It’s only in love and in murder that we still remain sincere.” -Friedrich Dürrenmatt

22. “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, but in its sequel, it turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. “This first murder, it’s like first love, it’s unforgettable.” -Alexander Pichushkin

24. “Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.” -Dashiell Hammett

25. “There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” -Ambrose Bierce

26. “And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.” -Bernard Shaw

27. “We murder to dissect.” -William Wordsworth

28. “Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed — they die the same day.” -Pablo Escobar

29. “Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.” -Confucius

30. “The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.” -Ann Rule

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