Top 100 That Kills Quotes
#1. It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive
Bhikkhu Bodhi
#2. can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it?
Jim Fergus
#3. We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.
Alan Harrington
#4. Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.
Debolina Bhawal
#5. A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.
Raj Patel
#6. I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.
Henry Rollins
#7. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic
Gavin De Becker
#8. It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
Mark Twain
#9. Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive
Ryan Tedder
#11. I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.
Benny Blanco
#12. Pro medicina est dolor, dolorem qui necat."
"The pain that kills pain acts as medicine," Win translated.
"That would make sense only to a Roma," Amelia said, and Cam grinned.
Lisa Kleypas
#14. The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'
Devin Townsend
#15. It's not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.
Robert Ringer
#16. If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.
Mary Harron
#17. I loved them as poets love the poetry
that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.
Derek Walcott
#18. My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy. Flames need oxygen to light, Flames need a bit of wind.
Ann Voskamp
#19. The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!
Stephenie Meyer
#20. Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Crystal Eastman
#21. The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him
Homer
#22. I don't know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness - "
He lifted her up. "The same ecstasy - "
"The same fire that kills everything - "
"The same passion that ignites it all again. You don't know. You can't remember how wonderful - "
"I've seen it. I do know.
Lauren Kate
#23. You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.
Gabriel Iglesias
#24. The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God's mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn't wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God's mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#25. People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.
Stephanie Szostak
#26. It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
Douglas Adams
#28. There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.
Sinbad
#29. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Gautama Buddha
#30. Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots)
Charles De Leusse
#31. What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."
That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.
Melina Marchetta
#32. A story untold could be the one that kills you.
Pat Conroy
#33. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A.E. Housman
#35. Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
James Keller
#37. Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart
#40. I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.
Steve Harvey
#41. If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.
Norman Reedus
#42. Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.
Kid Rock
#44. First love," said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.
Lang Leav
#45. It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
George Vaillant
#46. Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.
Tara Hudson
#47. There was an old joke - it's not the fall that kills you but the abrupt stop.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#48. I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
Kevin James
#49. If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.
Bobby Bowden
#50. It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
Vito Acconci
#51. It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you.
M.F. Moonzajer
#52. Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
Thomas Bernhard
#53. Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you
Richard Hammond
#54. The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Ernest K. Gann
#55. It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
Elie Wiesel
#56. Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance.
Bill Jones
#57. There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#58. It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker
#59. Love is elixir that keeps you alive. Love is poison that kills you. Unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day.
Udai Yadla
#60. Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
#61. You put the thing that kills you right between your teeth,but don't give it the power to kill you
John Green
#62. as every office worker knows, it's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you.
Mick Herron
#63. A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.
Robin Williams
#64. Don't you feel like a little glass of rum? It's Cuban, like all the good stuff that kills you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#65. But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying ... that kills you.
Jennifer Ashley
#66. The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
Tommy Chong
#67. Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
R. Scott Bakker
#68. Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.
Saru Singhal
#69. Here is what I have learned,' Henry said. 'If you cannot be unafraid...be afraid and happy...Think about what you are afraid of...Does it have to be something that kills you? No. It is just a little thing. It could be anything. It could be something beautiful instead.
Maggie Stiefvater
#70. Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#71. A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
Robin Williams
#72. Without a gospel-centered approach to productivity, we can easily fall into a law-based approach to the Christian life that kills our joy and freedom
Matt Perman
#73. One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
Paul Graham
#74. It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end.
Gene Kim
#75. The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
Anne Rice
#77. I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
Werner Herzog
#78. Resentment is like venom that continues to pour through your system, doing its poisonous damage long after being bitten by the snake. It's not the bite that kills you; it's the venom.
Wayne W. Dyer
#79. Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#80. Because it kills hope. That's the sin. Anything that kills hope is a sin." I
Gayle Forman
#81. Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.
Robert Radcliffe
#82. To those who say adventure is dangerous I say, try routine that kills you far quicker.
Paulo Coelho
#83. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Thomas Browne
#84. When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.
Haruki Murakami
#85. If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Dorothy Parker
#86. Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
Miguel De Unamuno
#87. I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
Alexi Giannoulias
#88. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#89. Once I read a study about prisoners with a life sentence. The ones without the possibility of parole were happier than those who might get out. Defies logic, but then, not really. Sometimes it's the hope that kills you.
Julie Buxbaum
#90. It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian
#91. I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
Frank Herbert
#92. Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow.
E. M. Forster
#93. Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.
Nickolas Butler
#94. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
William Shakespeare
#95. Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman ... I met Harry Truman ... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.
Joan Rivers
#96. I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt LeBlanc
#97. It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.
Imbolo Mbue
#98. There are clues in the script ... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"' ... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.
David Suchet
#99. I'm cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end.
Nicole Williams
#100. I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.
Neal H. Moritz