How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Unforgiven.
Quote #7
WILL: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.
Okay, either Will doesn't know what to say when people like the Kid are crying, or he really just doesn't care. There's something coldly understated in these comments. All Will can say is that "killing a man" is a "hell of a thing"? This seems so detached, so surgical, and so inhuman.
Quote #8
THE KID: You want it, keep it. I'm never gonna use it again…I won't kill nobody no more. I ain't like you, Will…Go on, keep it, all of it, it's yours…I guess I'd rather be blind and ragged than dead.
The Kid here proves he's not like Will. He gives up his gun, which is as good as a statement about non-violence as there is. He could have kept the gun and not used it, but it sounds like he'd rather not have it at all.
Quote #9
WILL: That's right, I've killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.
This is Will's most explicit statement about his violent past. He doesn't seem to care one way or other, and he simply admits that he has killed just about everything. The fact that Little Bill is now on the list, so to speak, suggests that Will is still okay with violence.