Criminal Mind Quotes - Page 4

• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

  Alan Lightman

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Vanity, Needs

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Alive, Mystery

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Evil, World, Hell

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Empathy, Behaviour

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

  Mason Cooley

  Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Games, Chess Game

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Riddle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Remembrance

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• I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  People, Black History, African American

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, Tragedy, Politics

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Justice, Matter

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book byMalcolm X (p. 400), 1965.

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

  Erich Fromm

  Sympathy, Death, Wise

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• For trust not him that hath once broken faith

  William Shakespeare

  Broken

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.80

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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