Best Hannibal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What is desire? Desire is a restaurant. Desire is watching you eat. Desire is pouring wine for you. Desire is looking at the menu and wondering what it would be like to kiss you. Desire is the surprise of your skin. Look - in between us now are the props of ordinary life - glasses, knives, cloths, Time has been here before. History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. The props change, but not this. Not this single naked wanting you.”

Desire Longing Yearning Eat Hannibal

Book:Two Stories

Source: Two Stories

“He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”

Heart Soul Human Nature Horror Murder Heartless Monster Psychopath Serial Killer Psychopaths Heartlessness Hannibal The Silence Of The Lambs

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.”

Stars Astronomy The Universe Hannibal The Silence Of The Lambs We Are Not Alone The Stars

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Inveniam viam aut faciam…” “I will find a way or make one.”

War Military Determination Latin Will Willpower Military Quote Willpower Quotes Hannibal Latin Quotes

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“Aut inveniam viam aut faciam…” ~Latin~ “I shall either find a way or make one.”

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Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“For years Lecter had teased the problem, wanting very much for Hawking to be right the first time, for the expanding universe to stop, for entropy to mend itself, for Mischa, eaten, to be whole again.”

Grief Cannibalism Hannibal

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“Clarice, I’m going to leave you here with these remains. Remains, Clarice. Scream your plight into his eyeholes and no reply will come.” He put his hands on the sides of her head. “What you need of your father is here, in your head, and subject to your judgment, not his.”

Father Grief Hannibal

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.”

Regret Miracle England Relief Cricket Italy Ambivalence Hannibal Bradman

Author:R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

“There is much tradition and mystique in the bequest of personal weapons to a surviving comrade in arms. It has to do with a continuation of values past individual mortality. People living in a time made safe for them by others may find this difficult to understand.”

Values Sacrifice Honor Patriotism Firearms Legacies Hannibal Thomas Harris Hannibal Lector

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“He spoke to Tommy in the way a dog does speak. He came up to him, shook himself, put a paw on Tommy's trouser leg and tried to pull him in the direction from which he had just come.”

Dogs Hannibal Tommy And Tuppence Manchester Terrier

Book:Postern of Fate

Source: Postern of Fate

“He would like to meet Lecter, talk and share with him, rejoice with him in their shared vision, be recog nized by him as John the Baptist recognized the One who came after, sit on him as the Dragon sat on 666 in Blake’s Revelation series, and film his death as, dying, he melded with the strength of the Dragon.”

Hannibal Thomas Harris The Red Dragon

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“No existe misericordia en la Máquina verde; nosotros la creamos, fabricándola en las partes que han superado nuestro elemental cerebro de reptil. No existe el crimen, nosotros lo hemos creado y solo a nosotros nos incumbe.”

Crimen Hannibal Misericordia Thomas Harris Red Dragon Dragón Rojo

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“Es muy fácil confundir la comprensión con la simpatía. Deseamos la simpatía con tanta fuerza... Puede que aprender a distinguirla forme parte del proceso de madurar. Es duro y desagradable darse cuenta de que alguien puede comprenderte sin tener que gustarle.”

Hannibal Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“Es muy fácil confundir la comprensión con la simpatía, por la desesperada necesidad de simpatía que todos sentimos. Puede que aprender a distinguirlas forme parte del proceso de madurar. Es duro y desagradable darse cuenta de que alguien puede comprenderte sin que ni siquiera le gustes.”

Hannibal Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter

Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut.”

Empath Infj Hannibal Will Graham

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“En este extraño mundo, esta mitad del mundo que ahora está a oscuras, tengo que perseguir a un ser que se alimenta de lágrimas”

Moths Hannibal Mounstro Buffalo Bill Clarice Starling Lecter Polillas

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

Science Psychology Horror Mental Illness Psychiatry Schizophrenia Hannibal The Silence Of The Lambs

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.”

Memories Dreams Horror Mental Illness Visions Hallucinations Flashback Hannibal The Silence Of The Lambs

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs