The Fisher King, part two
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. “ - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“It has been said 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 Kennedy
P911
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children” - Deitrich Bonhoeffer
The Perfect Storm
“Of all the animals man in the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.” - Mark Twain.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Khalil Gibran
Psychodrama
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.” - Oscar Wilde
“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” - Milan Kundera
Aftermath
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” - Helen Keller
Boogeyman
“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
North Mammon
“It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” - John Wooden
“The ultimate choice for a man inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.” - Erich Fromm
Empty Planet
“Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.” - Robspierre
The Last Word
“If men could only know each other they would neither idolize nor hate.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible but in the end they always fall. Always.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Lessons Learned
“Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.” - Dale E. Turner
“In order to learn the important lessons in life one must each day surmount a fear.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex, Birth, Death
“Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.” - T.S. Eliot
“Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends..” - T.S. Eliot
Profiler, Profiled
“All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.” - Cory Doctorow
No Way Out
“Evil brings men together.” - Aristotle
The Big Game
“I didn’t have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me the way others have all my life. Maybe they’re just the ones who have to pay for it.” - Perry Smith (Clutter family killer)
Revelations
“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.” - Ecclesiastes 7:20
Fear & Loathing
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.” - Socrates
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” - Cicero
Distress
“Our life is made by the death of others.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
“If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.” - Thomas Paine
Jones
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” - Robert F. Kennedy
Ashes & Dust
“The torture of a bad conscious is the hell of a living soul.” - John Calvin
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Gandhi
Honor Among Thieves
“There can be no good without evil.” - Russian proverb
“Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy
Open Season
“One man’s wilderness is another man’s theme park.” - Author unknown
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.” - James Anthony Froude
Legacy
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed and the well-fed.” - Herman Melville
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” - Charles Chaplin
No Way Out II - The "Evilution" of Frank
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects.” - Oscar Wilde
thanks for that :)
i hadn't the translation in english :)
Thanks for this. The Rose Kennedy quote is my favourite.
My favorite quotes are:
“It has been said 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 Kennedy
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Khalil Gibran
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” - Helen Keller
“It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” - John Wooden
“Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.” - Dale E. Turner
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Gandhi
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” - Charles Chaplin
They're all good.....they're all so true.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” - Helen Keller
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Gandhi
My personal favourites :D
Thanks for posting Pam!