Criminal Mind Quotations

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

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

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

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

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

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

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

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

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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

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

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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

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

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

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

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

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

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

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.

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

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

It's love that makes the world go round.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

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

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

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

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

With foxes we must play the fox.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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.

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

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

Names are not always what they seem.

There's no such thing as part freedom.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

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

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.