Criminal Mind Quotes - Page 2

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

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Criminals, Answers

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the earth”, Buccaneer Books

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Monsters, Abandoned Buildings, Impossible

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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

  John Calvin

  Soul, Hell, Torture

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

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• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Photography, Adversity

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Criminals, Righteous Indignation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational, Memories, Twins

  "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds: Foundation" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Judging People, Long

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

  Agathon

  Past, Has Beens, Deprived

  "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Humanity, Indivisible

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

  Domenico Cieri

  Letting Go, Past, Ifs

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

  Jean Racine

  Sadness, Blood, Feeling Sad

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Growing Up, 50th Birthday

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Trust, Girly, Truth

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• The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds". Season 6, Episode 18: "Lauren", March 16, 2011.

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, Literature, World

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.429

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• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

  Dorothy Dix

  Punishment, Keeping Secrets, Silence

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• Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fake People, Memories, Real

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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