I leave you the best phrases of Hannibal Lecter, psychopathic and cannibal psychiatrist, scholar and intriguing fictional character from the novels of Thomas Harris made to the cinema in The Silence of the Innocents, Hannibal, The Red Dragon and Hannibal, the origin of evil.
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Doctor Hannibal Lecter personified par excellence by actor Anthony Hopkins in "The Silence of the Innocents." Author: Hasaw öztürk, from Wikimedia Commons.
-It is the certainty of death that leads us to greatness.
-Love and death are the pillars on which all human emotion turns. What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others survives.
-Words are living things. They have a personality, a point of view, a plan.
-Memory makes moments immortal, but forgetting promotes a healthy mind. It is good to forget.
-No beast is as wild as man when he has the power to express his anger.
-When possible, one should always try to eat rude people.
-We form very fast links with what does not yet exist.
-Almost everything we do, almost everything we believe in, is motivated by death.
-For someone strong there is nothing more disconcerting than looking weak.
-Doing bad things to bad people makes us feel good.
-When the fox hears the rabbit screaming, he comes running, but not to help.
-Without memories, the imagination will take over.
-Nothing isolates more than mental illness.
-The tragedy is not dying, but wasted.
-Love takes us away from the senses, but hatred makes them present to calculate our actions.
-Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
-One observes nothing and only sees the things that you already have in mind.
-I have always been comforted by the idea of death, that my life can end at any moment allows me to fully appreciate the beauty, art and horror of all that this world can offer.
-Nothing made me happen. I happened.
-Now you're being rude, and I hate rude people.
-As your mother tells you, and my mother used to tell me, “it's important”, she always used to say, “always trying new things”.
-If you can't keep up with the conversation, then you better not mess with it.
"Hey, Cordell!" Why don't you push it? You can always say it was me.
-And don't lie Clarice, or I'll know.
"Your job is to cause my downfall, so I'm not so sure how good my wishes should be for you." But I'm sure we'll have fun. Ta-ta, "H".
"Are you trying to find my whereabouts, naughty girl?"
-People don't always tell you what they're thinking. Just worry that you do not advance in life.
-Have you seen the blood in the moonlight? It looks pretty black.
-Do you think you can change me in the same way that I have changed you?
-Mason Verger doesn't want to kill me any more than I want to kill him. He just wants to see me suffer in an unimaginable way. It's pretty twisted, you know.
-Clarice, what are you doing awake? You should be resting. Go back to bed.
"I guess your little brother must smell almost as bad as you do now."
-I'm not interested in lambs, I just eat them.
-All of him is pure empathy. You can take your point of view, or mine, and perhaps others that scare you. It is an uncomfortable gift, perception is a double-edged sword.
-I crossed half the world to see you run, Clarice. Let me run, right?
-Every creative act has its destructive consequence. He who was yesterday must perish to make way for who he is today.
-Somewhere between denying horrible events and yelling at them lies the key to psychological trauma. Psychological trauma is an evil of the weak, I want to give you power back.
-You are not going to persuade me by appealing to my intellectual vanity.
-On a similar note I must confess, I am seriously thinking about eating your wife.
-For Socrates, death was not a defeat, but a remedy.
-Being smart ruins a lot of things, doesn't it?
"Tell me Clarice, have the lambs stopped yelling?"
-I didn't poison your dinner. I wouldn't do that to food.
-The memory is what I have now instead of a view.
-The malice of God has no measure and his irony is incomparable.
-It is curious to see how effectively things operate when one recognizes them.
-You must understand that blood and breath are nothing more than elements that change to make it shine, as fire is a source of light.
-Tell me Clarice, would you ever say to me: “Stop. If you loved me, would you stop?
-I understand your mental state, you understand mine, we are the same. That gives him the ability to deceive me and for me to deceive him.
-The psychology departments are full of mentally handicapped.
-The tendency to see others less human is universal.
-I wouldn't have let that happen to you. Rudeness is indescribably ugly to me.
-Shh… Don't move. You are in shock. I don't want you to be in pain. In a moment you will start to feel dizzy, then drowsy. Do not resist. It is as gentle as stepping into a tub of warm water. I'm sorry I made it this far, Will, but every game must end.
-Every choice gives us the possibility to repent.
-I take your blood, like your meat.
-Before I start, I have to warn you… nothing here is vegetarian.
-You see, the brain itself feels no pain if that worries you Clarice.
-I enjoy doing portraits. Facial expressions reveal the subject's mental processes.
"How do you know that word, Clarice?" Hey? Cheap and metallic, like sucking on a greasy coin?
-Positive emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors, cruelty is a gift from our own humanity.
"I'd really like to talk longer, but I'll have an old friend of mine for dinner."
-You are an exceptional boy. I admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.
-The first and the worst sign of a sociopathic behavior is cruelty towards animals.
-An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
-Be blind Alana. Don't be brave.
-A census taker once tried to ask me some questions. I ate his liver with some beans and a good Chianti.
-Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except for greed.
-Children transport us to our childhood, to memories with dad. That life is an anchor that sustains us in the storm, everyone needs an anchor.
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