People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.

It’s an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.

He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

As soon as you make a mistake, you’re killed by the press.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.

Work never killed anyone. It’s worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we’d just settle down and do the work.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.

The chances that your tombstone will read ‘Killed by Asteroid’ are about the same as they’d be for ‘Killed in Airplane Crash.’

Every step is like chess—the wrong move gets you killed

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party’s government.