1. “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” —Joseph Conrad
Referenced in “Extreme Aggressor” (Season 1, Episode 1)
2. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” —Winston Churchill
Referenced in “Extreme Aggressor” (Season 1, Episode 1)
3. “Try again, fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
Referenced in “Extreme Aggressor” (Season 1, Episode 1)
4. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” —Albert Einstein
Referenced in “Plain Sight” (Season 1, Episode 4)
5. “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”—Rose Kennedy
Referenced in “Plain Sight” (Season 1, Episode 4)
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6. “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” —William Shakespeare
Referenced in “L.D.S.K.” (Season 1, Episode 6)
7. “The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?” —Albert Einstein
Referenced in “Derailed” (Season 1, Episode 9)
8. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” —Albert Pine
Referenced in “Riding the Lightning” (Season 1, Episode 14)
9. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
Referenced in “Unfinished Business” (Season 1, Episode 15)
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Criminal Minds season 2 quotes
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 Kennedy
Referenced in “The Fisher King, Part 2” (Season 2, Episode 1)
11. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde
Referenced in “Psychodrama” (Season 2, Episode 4)
12. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” —Helen Keller
Referenced in “Aftermath” (Season 2, Episode 5)
13. “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” —Erich Fromm
Referenced in “North Mammon” (Season 2, Episode 7)
14. “In order to learn the most important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Referenced in “Lessons Learned” (Season 2, Episode 10)
15. “All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.”—Corey Doctorrow
Referenced in “Profiler, Profiled” (Season 2, Episode 12)
16. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” —Cicero
Referenced in “Fear and Loathing” (Season 2, Episode 16)
17. “There can be no good without evil.” —Russian proverb
Referenced in “Honor Among Thieves” (Season 2, Episode 20)
Criminal Minds season 3 quotes
18. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
Referenced in “The Perfect Storm” (Season 3, Episode 2)
19. “Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare
Referenced in “Penelope” (Season 3, Episode 9)
20. “A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.” —Susan B. Anthony
Referenced in “Tabula Rasa” (Season 3, Episode 19)
Criminal Minds season 4 quotes
21. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” —Chuck Palahniuk
Referenced in “The Angel Maker” (Season 4, Episode 2)
22. “We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” —Ayn Rand
Referenced in “Brothers in Arms” (Season 4, Episode 10)
Behind the scenes with Paget Brewster, Matthew Gray Gubler, Thomas Gibson (seated), A.J. Cook, Shemar Moore, and Joe Mantegna (seated) Cliff Lipson/CBS
Behind the scenes with Paget Brewster, Matthew Gray Gubler, Thomas Gibson (seated), A.J. Cook, Shemar Moore, and Joe Mantegna (seated) (Cliff Lipson/CBS)
Criminal Minds season 5 quotes
23. “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” —Haniel Long
Referenced in “100” (Season 5, Episode 9)
24. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” —Washington Irving
Referenced in “Retaliation” (Season 5, Episode 11)
25. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”—Sir Walter Scott
Referenced in “Parasite” (Season 5, Episode 14)
26. “Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”—Emily Dickinson
Referenced in “Mosley Lane” (Season 5, Episode 16)
27. “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”—George Bernard Shaw
Referenced in “The Internet is Forever” (Season 5, Episode 22)
Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna and Shemar Moore talk behind the scenes with Indianapolis Colts star Dallas Clark, who guest stars as San Diego Police Officer Austin Kent. Adam Rose/CBS
Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna and Shemar Moore talk behind the scenes with Indianapolis Colts star Dallas Clark, who guest stars as San Diego Police Officer Austin Kent. (Adam Rose/CBS)
Criminal Minds season 6 quotes
28. “No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Referenced in “Corazón” (Season 6, Episode 12)
29. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”—Helen Keller
Referenced in “Corazón” (Season 6, Episode 12)
30. “And yet to every bad there’s a worse.”—Thomas Hardy
Referenced in “Supply and Demand” (Season 6, Episode 24)
Morgan (Shemar Moore), Det. William LaMontagne Jr. (Josh Stewart), JJ (A.J. Cook) and Prentiss (Paget Brewster) try to foil a gang of serial killing bank robbers in Washington, D.C., as the BAU team tries to negotiate the situation unfolding inside the bank, on the two-hour seventh season finale of CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, May 16 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS
Morgan (Shemar Moore), Det. William LaMontagne Jr. (Josh Stewart), JJ (A.J. Cook) and Prentiss (Paget Brewster) try to foil a gang of serial killing bank robbers in Washington, D.C., as the BAU team tries to negotiate the situation unfolding inside the bank, on the two-hour seventh season finale of CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, May 16 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: (Monty Brinton/CBS)
Criminal Minds season 7 quotes
31. “Find the place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”—Joseph Campbell
Referenced in “Hope” (Season 7, Episode 8)
32. “Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.” —Unknown
Referenced in “I Love You Tommy Brown” (Season 7, Episode 17)
33. “To the living, we owe respect. But to the dead, we owe only the truth.” —Voltaire
Referenced in “Profiling 101” (Season 7, Episode 22)
Thomas Gibson (Aaron Hotchner) and Joe Mantegna (David Rossi) CBS Broadcasting
Thomas Gibson (Aaron Hotchner) and Joe Mantegna (David Rossi) (CBS Broadcasting)
Criminal Minds season 8 quotes
34. “One of the deep secrets in life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll
Referenced in “Through the Looking Glass” (Season 8, Episode 3)
35. “The greatest good you can do for another, is not to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” —Benjamin Disraeli
Referenced in “The Apprenticeship” (Season 8, Episode 6)
36. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach
Referenced in “Brothers Hotchner” (Season 8, Episode 23)
37. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” —Mitch Albom
Referenced in “In Blood” (Season 9, Episode 6)
38. “There is no terror after the bang of the gun; only the anticipation in it.” —Alfred Hitchcock
Referenced in “The Return” (Season 9, Episode 8)
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Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia (CBS Broadcasting)
Criminal Minds season 9 quotes
39. The universe doesn’t like the secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth to lead you to it.” —Lisa Unger
Referenced in “Strange Fruit” (Season 9, Episode 9)
40. Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.” —Paul Boese
Referenced in “The Road Home” (Season 9, Episode 13)
41. “Beware the fury of a patient man.” —John Dryden
Referenced in “The Road Home” (Season 9, Episode 13)
42. “When you look into an abyss…The abyss looks into you.” —Nietzsche
Referenced in “200” (Season 9, Episode 14)
43. “There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.”—Unknown
Referenced in “Gabby” (Season 9, Episode 16)
44. “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease that to know what sort of disease a person has.”—Hippocrates
Referenced in “Rabid” (Season 9, Episode 18)
