Confessions of a Curious Mind

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

List of quotes which I love - Series 1

Nopes, this is not a blog- this is a list of quotes which I have picked up from Criminal minds which are personal favourites. For those of you that have not seen the series, its about the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) from FBI who track serial killing cases by building a profile of the "unsub". In each episode, they have two quotes from someone famous or someone anonymous, one in the starting & the other in the end. I have always loved those quotes & some of them have left a lasting impression. Here's is a collection of those ones that I love the most. Owing to the fact that they are from a serial killer tracking TV series, some of them may be dark in nature.This is first posting :
1. When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." - Fredrich Nietzsche
2. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
3. "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - attributed to William Shakespeare
4. "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." - CarJung
5. Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together - Eugene Ionesco
6. "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."-Sir Francis Bacon
7. It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."- Mahatma Gandhi
8. "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves - Francois de la Roche Foucald
9. "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
10. "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Keneddy
11. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."- Kahlil Gibran
12. "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth- Oscar Wilde
13. The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone."- Milan Kundera
14. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."- Plato
15. "Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."- Mahatma Gandhi
16. "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."- Tolstoy