Best 52 quotes in «criminal mind quotes» category

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Names are not always what they seem.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

The healthy man does not torture others.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.