An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
IngridTags: power murder soul sanity mind heart ideas humans domination idea bullet world-sanity
In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George.
Tom ConradTags: life existence murder death afterlife ghosts ravens
I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.
But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")
That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.
Michael Thomas FordDetective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was turning up to this late hour crime scene, he may also ordinarily question why his superior officer was dressed as Julius Caesar, in full tunic and green leafy wreath, yet ever since the new and youngest-ever-appointed superintendent had arrived at the Met it had been all too clear he was an officer who didn’t quite do things by the eBook.
Tom ConradTags: murder humour comedy detectives pomposity ebooks crime-scenes
And then, on September 11, the world fractured.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
Tags: murder 9-11 terrorism families-of-victims
In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.
Frederick WeiselTags: murder mystery teller weisel
Take a seat, Charlie,” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.
Frederick WeiselTags: murder teller weisel frederick-weisel
Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.
Jeanette WintersonTags: murder violence working-class
I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.
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