Top 69 Quotes About Violent Death

#1. My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

Mark Twain

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#2. States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.

Steven Pinker

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#3. I know I'm someone powerful, someone dangerous. A grim smile tugs at my lips despite my current circumstances. I know I'm not afraid of pain or death. And these men and women? They should be afraid of me. Because whoever I am, I am violent, and I will be having my revenge.

Laura Thalassa

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#4. There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.

Peter Singer

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#5. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

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#6. He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Henry Fielding

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#7. The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

Richard Dawkins

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#8. Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#9. A hero doesn't seek death, but neither does a hero let the possibility of violent death deter resolute action toward the purpose at hand.

Tod Lindberg

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#10. Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

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#11. I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.

Troy King

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#12. Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety.
"No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.

Rowan Coleman

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#13. I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime ... period.

Troy King

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#14. To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

Kelly Braffet

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#15. For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

Griffin Jay

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#16. Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.

Andrea Nye

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#17. A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Vincent Bugliosi

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#18. Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death every Saudi royal.

Jean Sasson

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#19. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

Frank Herbert

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#20. Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile ... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Louise Penny

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#21. By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.

Vladislav Tamarov

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#22. We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against ... Death belongs to God alone.

Victor Hugo

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#23. If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

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#24. Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Sarah Vowell

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#25. I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Brie Larson

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#26. Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!

Alexandre Dumas

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#27. When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

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#28. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Vandana Shiva

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#29. Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.

Sue Grafton

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#30. The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word of either should be violated in this country.

Geraldine Brooks

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#31. Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

Vasily Grossman

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#32. The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

Edward Abbey

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#33. The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

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#34. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#35. The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Tom Shadyac

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#36. Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight of a bubble from the lips.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#37. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

J. Michael Straczynski

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#38. It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. It had been a violent death, perfect for creating ghosts.

Patricia Briggs

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#39. But Armand always said people react differently to death, and it was folly to judge anyone and double folly to judge what people do when faced with sudden, violent death. Murder. They weren't themselves.

Louise Penny

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#40. She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.

Ali Smith

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#41. Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#42. To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Brian Jones

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#43. Teatime put a comforting arm around his shoulders. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm on your side. A violent death is the last thing that'll happen to you.

Terry Pratchett

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#44. Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.

Hilda Doolittle

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#45. What grabs our mental spotlight is illicit sex, violent death, and Walter Mittyish leaps of status. Now

Steven Pinker

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#46. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Louise Penny

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#47. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

Henry David Thoreau

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#48. When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

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#49. Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

P.D. James

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#50. The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

Tim Lebbon

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#51. 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 again.

Dinesh D'Souza

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#52. Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air,
Or all the elements by scruples, I know not,
Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!
Of all deaths, the violent death is best;
For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,
The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.

John Webster

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#53. An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.

Richard A. Falk

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#54. The constant life and death struggles of the Everglades violent and implacable, but not mean, never mean.

Patrick Astre

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#55. Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Peter Diamandis

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#56. Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to its sequel.

Sue Grafton

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#57. When the author speaks of the 'blood of Jesus' he is referring to his violent death on the cross.

Colin G. Kruse

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#58. These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off.

Stephen Richards

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#59. If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light.
-Chapter 7

Jane Austen

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#60. In myth, violent death is always justified.

Rene Girard

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#61. Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

James Madison

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#62. Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed. It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse

Thomas Pynchon

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#63. Did her dragon nature make her more violent? She'd never fantasized death for anyone before. Then again, she'd never met someone like Ferrin.

Chris Cannon

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#64. The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that Black men would still pay the ultimate price.

Bryan Stevenson

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#65. History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#66. Our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

Orlando Rodriguez

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#67. Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I am simply trying to emerge from the violent unnecessariness of death.

Luke Davies

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#68. He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided a necessary sense of urgency.

Andrea Laurence

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#69. Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother

Lena Dunham

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