Top 56 Words Can Kill You Quotes
#1. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.
Jim Butcher
#2. With words ... one can cut & kill:but also one can cure and heal.
Darrius Garrett
#3. Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.
Gene Wolfe
#4. She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you.
Helen Humphreys
#5. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Will Carleton
#6. The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
Aberjhani
#7. Try not to kill me with your love,
try not to break a glass wall
seeing everything,
but going unheard,
the words feel unspoken.
Crystals gleaming at our feet,
innocently joined by red fists
and a kiss.
Megan Hutchinson
#8. What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.
Henri Charriere
#9. When they went in for the kill, it was usually with words. Because mean girls don't kill. They dehumanize.
R.K. Lilley
#10. Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Czeslaw Milosz
#11. Many an ancient lord's last words had been, You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future
Tahereh Mafi
#13. Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.
Chuck Wendig
#14. To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.
M.H. Rakib
#15. You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#16. Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.
Haim Harari
#17. It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Elie Wiesel
#19. This is my story.
Death tried to kill it;
Grief tried to drown it;
Pride tried to erase it;
Pain tried to hide it;
but
Deep saved it.
My story grew words while waiting in Deep and now my words have wings to fly. Lottie Johnson, age 96
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#20. To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.
Patrick White
#21. Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
Bernie Siegel
#22. Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
Tahereh Mafi
#23. Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last
poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me
only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.
Mahmoud Darwish
#25. Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.
Eugene H. Peterson
#26. you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki
Tite Kubo
#27. Stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE
Stephen King
#29. His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Franz Kafka
#30. Kill him." Dr. Kissing repeated my words in a flat, matter-of-fact voice. "Just so. But 'kill,' as you will have observed, like 'spy' and 'stop,' is really just one more of those short but exceedingly troublesome words.
Alan Bradley
#31. We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
Maxim Gorky
#32. As the memory of that day echoed through her, she remembered the words Sam kept screaming at Arobynn, as the King of the Assassins beat her, the words that she'd somehow forgotten in the fog of pain: I'll kill you! Sam had said it like he meant it. He'd bellowed it, again and again and again ...
Sarah J. Maas
#33. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, "Love one another as I have loved you." Ask yourself "How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?" Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
#35. But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!
John Connolly
#36. Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"
Michelle Malkin
#37. We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
Cristiane Serruya
#38. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.
L. H. Cosway
#39. We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.
Greg Gutfeld
#40. Joey described to her the sleek warm neatness of her turds as they slid from her anus and fell into his open mouth, where, since they were only words, they tasted like excellent dark chocolate.
Jonathan Franzen
#41. Hasn't stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I'd still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool. -Janco
Maria V. Snyder
#42. Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.
Jason E. Hodges
#43. When we hurt each other, when we destroy & kill by words or deeds. When we deface the spirit of humanity-we destroy ourselves in the process!
Timothy Pina
#44. Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.
Ryu Murakami
#46. The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.
Shashi Tharoor
#47. On the so-called Kissing Bridge in Bassey Park, amid the declarations of school spirit and undyng love, someone had carved the words I WILL KILL MY MOTHER SOON, and below it someone had added: NOT SOON ENOUGH SHES FULL OF DISEEZE.
Stephen King
#48. The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.
Rick Falkvinge
#49. In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
John Abizaid
#50. Love can't kill me," I say, parroting Carla's words.
"That's not true," she says. "Whoever told you that?
Nicola Yoon
#51. There are powers in the words. With this you can save lives, but also it's something that can kill.
Yuu Watase
#52. You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Markus Zusak
#53. It's just words. How can words be dangerous?"
"You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words."
"That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead."
"Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#54. The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.
Sandra Cisneros
#55. Words can heal, words can also kill. Choose your words carefully so that you'll pull people away from their emotional graves rather than pushing them into it! Inspire, don't insult!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
"I know."
You can kill a man with those words.
Markus Zusak
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