100+ Compelling Murder Quotes for Mystery Enthusiasts
In our exploration of the darker side of human nature, we delve into the haunting realm of murder quotes. These quotes, spoken by infamous characters of literature, film, and history, provoke thought and introspection about the complexity of human minds. Whether it's the shiver-inducing whispers of a classic villain or the chilling justifications of a historical figure, murder quotes captivate, terrify, and fascinate. This collection reveals the myriad ways in which murder is portrayed through words, inviting us to ponder morality, sanity, and the essence of evil. Let's take a chilling journey through ten evocative subtitles featuring twelve quotes each to unravel the mysteries and motivations behind these macabre expressions.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." - Dante Alighieri
"I am indeed a king, because I know how to rule myself." - Pietro Aretino
"To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to fight." - Isaac Babel
"All great events turn on a hairpin, and a shadow appears thin air." - John le Carré
"Men have called me mad; but the question is yet to be settled." - Edgar Allan Poe
"For even more so than an act, a murder is a question, a question that supposedly only has only one answer." - Dorothy L. Sayers
"Whatever happened to me just happened, and now, because of it, I am what I am." - Charles Dickens
"There are frightful moments when the gods meet to compare their gruesome affairs of murder." - Joseph Conrad
"The innocence of the creature killed demands that its blood be paid for." - Albert Camus
"It is a pleasant feeling to be the greatest villain of all time, don’t you think?" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The perfect crime is to love and murder your best friend." - Agatha Christie
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!" - William Shakespeare
"Some men aren't looking for anything logical; some men just want to watch the world burn." - The Dark Knight
"I believe whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you...stranger." - The Dark Knight
"Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. And are we not created in his image?" - Hannibal
"Murder doesn’t go away." - Zodiac
"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both." - The Shawshank Redemption
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - The Usual Suspects
"We have such sights to show you!" - Hellraiser
"Suspense is like a woman; the more left to the imagination, the more the excitement." - Alfred Hitchcock
"What's dumber than a serial killer? Heroes who try to discover when they're going to kill." - Se7en
"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" - Dr. Strangelove
"You want to know how I got these scars?" - The Dark Knight
"No matter what's wrong with us, no matter what pain we're in, we need forgiveness." - Mystic River
"I have a gift for enraging people; but if I ever bore you, it’ll be with a knife." - Louise Brooks
"The more we do to you, the less you believe we are doing it." - Joseph Mengele
"Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one." - Steven Wright
"It is better to leave the world in barking madness than to cower submissively in sanity." - Hans Lutwitz
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror." - Jean Rostand
"We are all murderers and prostitutes, no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter what name we use to hide the violence that is in us." - R.D. Laing
"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the task of politicians." - Karl Marx
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil." - James A. Garfield
"Propaganda is the art of convincing others of what nobody in his right mind would believe." - Adolf Hitler
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation." - Hilaire Belloc
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another." - Helen Keller
"Ghosts are but transient things; murder is forever." - Henry James
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - J.K. Rowling
"Spirits, when they appear, bring only sadness." - Abraham Lincoln
"Never trust a man who's survived his own death." - Jasper Fforde
"Some murders are a long time coming, and some can't be explained at all with logic." - Erin Morgenstern
"It is only in death, they say, we truly have life." - Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Even death has a heart." - Markus Zusak
"Darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good." - P.C. Cast
"It’s alive, it’s alive!" - Mary Shelley
"Shadows of anger hide their guilt within." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Choosing to be a monster in life leads one into the arms of comfort in death." - Bram Stoker
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
"I will kill you and all you hold dear." - Hannibal Lecter
"That's what crazy is: it's irrational, senseless." - Gillian Flynn
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
"One who is allowed to waste, requires the body count stack higher than before." - Gillian Flynn
"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old." - Pat Barker
"Even a small dagger brings down a big man." - Chinese Proverb
"We all go a little mad sometimes." - Alfred Hitchcock
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Goethe
"Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing." - Clive Barker
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." - Joseph Heller
"Give me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." - Oscar Wilde
"With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back." - Russian Proverb
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures." - John F. Kennedy
"If I have to break a bone to be a poet, then I’ll break a bone." - Stephen King
"Murderers are becoming so serious, they seldom say 'I’m sorry' anymore." - Ray Bradbury
"A plan is simply a predation of future murders." - Arthur Koestler
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." - Oscar Wilde
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams
"Anything becomes possible once you start believing you deserve the universe’s worst nightmare." - Stephen King
"Death is at your doorstep, and it’s not a patient visitor." - Joe Hill
"I think horror should make you afraid, it should get under your skin." - Neil Gaiman
"Don’t move. If we wake up those dead brains, we may never go back to sleep again." - H.P. Lovecraft
"True evil, like poison, is often hidden in small containers." - Mary Shelley
"There is fear in putting away one’s own uncle." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Not all snakes are buried; some rule." - Anne Rice
"A smile hides a scream." - Shirley Jackson
"Sometimes, great horror lives in the smallest passages." - Stephen King
"You don’t need to be a ghost to possess the hidden, terrible things." - H. G. Wells
"The dead sleep lightly." - H.P. Lovecraft
"Those who seek truth are doomed to find it." - Clive Barker
"The horrors you’ve revealed to us only prove the slippery motion of truth." - Ray Bradbury
"A bloodthirsty villain was never short of excuses." - Harold Schechter
"The real monsters are human." - Karen Marie Moning
"Murder is the essence of caution, calculation, decision without pause." - Thomas Harris
"People don’t like the habit of killing. Though there is an instinctive pleasure in murder, we call it the exercise of one who isn’t good enough." - Harold Schechter
"Fear always springs from ignorance." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are no angels in the shape of men." - George Orwell
"Murderers are not monsters, they’re men. And that’s the most frightening thing about them." - Alice Sebold
"There’s a sort of beauty in the beauty of blurred justice." - Truman Capote
"Faces that have charmed and deserted you are recreated." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Perception is reality for those in a world gone mad." - Mary Elizabeth Frye
"He existed! Before he destroys, he creates. And in this, he is just like us." - Elizabeth Báthory
"All roads end where you end." - Jeffrey Dahmer
"The human heart longs for the truth, even at the risk of life." - Anne Perry
"The more observed a person becomes, the less equilibrium is possible." - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"We murder that we may preserve." - Albert Payson Terhune
"One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero." - Charlotte Brontë
"He carries his crimes where others wear medals." - Mary Shelley
"There is, perhaps, an unfiltered lamentation in murder that can only be caught by those with spirits duller than its own." - Wilkie Collins
"Death is the cure for all diseases." - Thomas Browne
"Murder is born of love, and love is the child of murder." - Oscar Wilde
"A shiver of pleasure, sinister and delight on its own, can only be found in nocturnal cathedrals." - J.M. Barrie
"As if slaughter were some obscure art form only the brightest minds comprehend." - Bram Stoker
"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the slayer, 'It brings about its haunting song every time it's proposed.'" - Charles Dickens
"The secret hath made lactation abominable." - Andrew W. Hastie
"The devil’s greatest con was convincing the world he did not exist." - Unknown
"Suspicion often creates what it expects." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I’m not looking for anything logical." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The battle between good and evil never rests." - Agatha Christie
"Don't mistake politeness for weakness." - Eddie Marsan
"Truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde
"To catch the criminal one must think like the criminal." - Agatha Christie
"Another word for ambition is murder." - Carl Von Clausewitz
"The only truly dead are those caught in the shadows." - Ian Rankin
"The currency of crime is secret." - Raymond Chandler
"In matters of crime, appearances often deceive." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"By the very act of investigation, one discloses the nature of crime." - Arthur Conan Doyle
