14 Best Monologues From The Max Payne Video Games
4. "As Surely As The Bullet Rips Through..."
... the victim's flesh, organ and bone, it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger."
A powerful point well-made. Killing someone does as much damage to you as it does the person you shot, your psyche askew and people's perception of you now tainted, something that's actually further developed with Max Payne 3.
Whether the quote is a general consensus or not, Max is the expert, and it's smart to take his word for it as, at this point, there mustn't be much of an image left of Max with the amount of flesh, organ and bone he's dismantled.