Beautiful Quotes from Memories of a Murderer
"The worst thing about Alzheimer’s is that each day is not subtracted from your life, but lost."
"I fight with my notes until the last moment, to prove that I am still me."
"If the memory of a killer begins to fade, do his crimes fade as well?"
"For a murderer, forgetting is the ultimate punishment; one more bitter than death."
"The moment I cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, my life is truly over."
"Evil does not exist from the beginning; it grows with every small wrong choice."
"Society is built in such a way that it acquits killers through forgetting."
"Killing is like addiction. At first, fear consumes you each time, but gradually it becomes a habit."
"In the end, everything in the world is meaningless. I learned this not from philosophy, but from piercing human bodies."
"I no longer fear dying; I fear being forgotten before I die."
"Some people are born to be killed, just as some are born to kill."
"Time moves forward for others, but for me it erodes."
"Perhaps death is a heavy drink that helps us forget the tedious night that is our life."
"The hardest part of life is dealing with people."
"What instills fear in man is not the devil, but time. No one can defeat time."
"If there is something you want to do, don’t hesitate. Just do it. Who knows tomorrow?"
"You cannot call someone human who has lost all memories. The present is only a link between past and future, meaningless by itself."
"Future memories mean remembering what you must do later. These are the first memories dementia patients lose."
"In the end, everyone is left alone with themselves."
"You may recognize the faces of your loved ones, but you no longer feel familiarity with them."
"Man is a prisoner of time."
"One of the bad things about being a killer for years is that you have no close friends to talk to. But do others really have such friends?"
"I feel like a prehistoric man who has descended into an era to which he does not belong."
"Living only in the present means descending into animal life."
"I like a quiet world. I cannot live in the city because too much noise attacks me."
"Guilt is essentially a fleeting feeling. Fear, anger, and jealousy are far stronger."
"Since we are born in another’s pain, / and die in our own pain."
"When I finish reading, I feel I have forgotten more than I have remembered."