āCriminal Minds opening and closing quotes Season 1 Episode 1 Extreme Aggressor Gideon: Joseph Conrad said, āThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.ā Gideon: Emerson said, āAll is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.ā Gideon: Winston Churchill said, āThe farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.ā Gideon: Nietzsche once said, āWhen you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.ā Season 1 Episode 2 Compulsion Gideon: Faulkner once said, āDonāt bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.ā Gideon: James Reese once said, āThere are certain clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fearā¦? These are things that weāre trained to look for.ā Gideon: Einstein once said, āImagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.ā Season 1 Episode 3 Wonāt Get Fooled Again Gideon: Samuel Johnson wrote, āAlmost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.ā Season 1 Episode 4 Plain Sight Gideon: French poet Jacques Rigaut said, āDonāt forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.ā Gideon: Rose Kennedy once said, āBirds sing after a storm; why shouldnāt people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?ā Season 1 Episode 5 Broken Mirror Gideon: Euripides said, āWhen a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.ā Gideon: Euripides said, āWhen love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.ā Season 1 Episode 6 L.D.S.K. Gideon: Nietzsche wrote, āThe irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.ā Hotchner: Shakespeare wrote, āNothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.ā Season 1 Episode 7 The Fox Gideon: Dr. Thomas Fuller ā āWith foxes we must play the fox.ā Season 1 Episode 8 Natural Born Killer Gideon: Hemingway wrote, āThere is no hunting like the hunting of man; and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never really care for anything else.ā Gideon: Carl Jung said, āThe healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.ā Season 1 Episode 9 Derailed Gideon: Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, āA belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.ā Reid: Albert Einstein asked, āThe question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?ā Season 1 Episode 10 The Popular Kids Gideon: Sir Peter Ustinov said, āUnfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.ā Gideon: Playwright Eugene Ionesco said, āIdeology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.ā Season 1 Episode 11 Blood Hungry Gideon: Harriet Beecher Stowe once said āThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.ā Season 1 Episode 12 What Fresh Hell? Gideon: āThe poet, W. H. Auden wrote, āEvil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table.āā Gideon: āMeasure not the work until the dayās out and the labor done.ā Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Season 1 Episode 13 Poison Gideon: Roman philosopher Lucretius said, āWhat is food to one, is to others bitter poison.ā Gideon: Confucius once said, āBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.ā Season 1 Episode 14 Riding the Lightning Gideon: Whoso sheddeth manās blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis 9:6. Gideon: Albert Pine said, āWhat we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.ā Season 1 Episode 15 Unfinished Business Gideon: Norman Maclean wrote, āIt is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.ā Elle: Abraham Lincoln once said, āIn the end itās not the years in your life that count. Itās the life in your years.ā Season 1 Episode 16 The Tribe Hotchner: Nietzsche wrote, āThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.ā Season 1 Episode 17 A Real Rain Gideon: W. H. Auden said, āMurder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.ā Gideon: Gandhi said, āBetter to be violent if thereās violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.ā Hotchner: Gandhi also said, āI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent.ā Season 1 Episode 18 Somebodyās Watching Gideon: Diane Arbus once said, āA photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.ā Gideon: Bernard Shaw once said, āAn American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.ā Season 1 Episode 19 Machismo Hotchner: Anthony Brandt wrote, āOther things may change us, but we start and end with family.ā Hotchner: Mexican proverb: āThe house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.ā Season 1 Episode 20 Charm and Harm Gideon: The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, āThere are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.ā Gideon: The author FranƧois de la Rochefoucauld wrote, āWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.ā Season 1 Episode 21 Secrets and Lies Gideon: Albert Einstein said, āWhoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.ā Gideon: George Orwell said, āIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.ā Season 1 Episode 22 The Fisher King (1) Gideon: Writer Elbert Hubbard said, āNo man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.ā Season 2 Episode 1 The Fisher King (2) Gideon: āThe 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.ā French writer FranƧois de la Rochefoucauld. Reid: āIt has been said, ātime heals all wounds.ā 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.ā Rose Kennedy. Season 2 Episode 2 P911 Gideon: Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said āThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.ā Season 2 Episode 3 The Perfect Storm Gideon: Mark Twain wrote āOf all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.ā Hotchner: Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote āOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.ā Season 2 Episode 4 Psychodrama Hotchner: āMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.ā Oscar Wilde. Hotchner: āThe basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone,ā Milan Kundera. Season 2 Episode 5 Aftermath Gideon: Helen Keller once said āAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.ā Season 2 Episode 6 The Boogeyman Hotchner: Plato wrote āWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.ā Season 2 Episode 7 North Mammon JJ: Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: āItās not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.ā JJ: āThe ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.ā Erich Fromm. Season 2 Episode 8 Empty Planet Gideon: Robespierre wrote āCrime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.ā Season 2 Episode 9 The Last Word Hotchner: Elbert Hubbard once wrote āIf men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.ā Hotchner: Mahatma Gandhi once said āAll through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always.ā Season 2 Episode 10 Lessons Learned Gideon: Dale Turner mused āSome of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.ā Gideon: Ralph Waldo Emerson said āIn order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.ā Season 2 Episode 11 Sex, Birth, Death Reid: T.S. Eliot wrote āBetween the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.ā Reid: T.S. Eliot wrote āBetween 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.ā Season 2 Episode 12 Profiler, Profiled Morgan: āAll secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. Thatās in the nature of secrets.ā Writer Cory Doctorow. Season 2 Episode 13 No Way Out Gideon: Aristotle said, āEvil brings men together.ā Season 2 Episode 14 The Big Game Gideon: Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family: āI didnāt have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe theyāre just the ones who have to pay for it.ā Season 2 Episode 15 Revelations Hotchner: āThere is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.ā Ecclesiastes 7:20 Season 2 Episode 16 Fear and Loathing Gideon: āFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.ā Socrates. Reid: āThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.ā Cicero. Season 2 Episode 17 Distress Gideon: āOur life is made by the death of others.ā Leonardo da Vinci. Hotchner: āIf there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.ā Thomas Paine. Season 2 Episode 18 Jones Gideon: Robert Kennedy once said āTragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.ā Season 2 Episode 19 Ashes and Dust Hotchner: āThe torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.ā John Calvin. Hotchner: Gandhi said āLive as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.ā Season 2 Episode 20 Honor Among Thieves Prentiss: An old Russian proverb reminds us, āThere can be no good without evil.ā Prentiss: āHappy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.ā Leo Tolstoy. Season 2 Episode 21 Open Season Gideon: āOne manās wilderness is another manās theme park.ā Author unknown. Prentiss: The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, āWild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.ā Season 2 Episode 22 Legacy Hotchner: āOf all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.ā Herman Melville Gideon: āNothing is permanent in this wicked worldā not even our troubles.ā Charles Chaplin. Season 2 Episode 23 No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank Gideon: āI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect.ā Oscar Wilde. Season 3 Episode 2 In Name and Blood Hotchner: George Washington said, āLet your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.ā Season 3 Episode 3 Scared to Death Hotchner: The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, āHe who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.ā Hotchner: Eleanor Roosevelt once said, āYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.ā Season 3 Episode 4 Children of the Dark Prentiss: āIn the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, itās intimate and psychological ā resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.ā Barbara Ehrenreich. Season 3 Episode 5 Seven Seconds Hotchner: Dostoyevsky once said, āNothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.ā Hotchner: G.K. Chesterton wrote: āFairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.ā Season 3 Episode 6 About Face Hotchner: āNow what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?ā Erasmus. Season 3 Episode 7 Identity Rossi: āAn earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.ā Martin Luther. Season 3 Episode 8 Lucky Morgan: āFantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.ā Francisco Goya. Morgan: āGod sends meat and the devil sends cooks.ā Thomas Deloney Season 3 Episode 9 Penelope Garcia: William Shakespeare wrote, āLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.ā Season 3 Episode 10 True Night Reid: āSuperman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.ā Author Clive Barker. Season 3 Episode 11 Birthright Hotch: The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, āIt doesnāt matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.ā JJ: Wordsworth wrote, āA simple child/ That lightly draws its breath/ And feels its life in every limb/ What should it know of death?ā Season 3 Episode 12 3rd Life Hotch: āNo man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.ā Daisy Bates. Hotch: āIt is a wise father that knows his own child.ā William Shakespeare. Season 3 Episode 13 Limelight Rossi: āI know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.ā Euripides. Rossi: āFor we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.ā Lucy Maud Montgomery. Season 3 Episode 14 Damaged Rossi: āā¦Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.ā Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph. Hotchner: āThere is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.ā Arthur Rubinstein. Season 3 Episode 15 A Higher Power Rossi: āThere is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.ā ā Daniel Webster. Prentiss: āThe most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.ā ā Ben Okri. Season 3 Episode 16 Elephantās Memory Reid: āA sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.ā John Steinbeck. Reid: āWe cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.ā ā Tom Stoppard. Season 3 Episode 17 In Heat JJ: āThere are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.ā ā George Bernard Shaw. JJ: āIf we knew each otherās secrets, what comforts we should find.ā ā John Churton Collins. Season 3 Episode 18 The Crossing Prentiss: Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, āNo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.ā JJ: Susan B. Anthony said, āA woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.ā Season 3 Episode 19 Tabula Rasa Hotch: āAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.ā ā Anatole France. Season 3 Episode 20 Lo-Fi Hotch: Voltaire said, āThe man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.ā Season 4 Episode 1 Mayhem Hotch: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ā Ernest Hemingway. Season 4 Episode 2 The Angel Maker Hotch: āWe all die. The goal isnāt to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.ā Chuck Palahniuk. Hotch: Wendell Berry said, āThe past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.ā Season 4 Episode 3 Minimal Loss Reid: āTo follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.ā Benjamin Franklin. Prentiss: āReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.ā Ayn Rand. Season 4 Episode 4 Paradise Hotch: Thomas Fuller wrote, āA foolās paradise is a wise manās hell.ā Hotch: Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, āThings are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few, perceives what has been carefully hidden.ā Season 4 Episode 5 Catching Out Prentiss: āPlenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer.ā Zulu proverb. Prentiss: āBeyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea/ And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be.ā Gerald Gould. Season 4 Episode 6 The Instincts Hotch: āWho speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response.ā Amos Bronson Alcott. Reid: āI think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature canāt touch with decay.ā Bob Dylan. Season 4 Episode 7 Memoriam Reid: āWhat was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.ā Friedrich Nietzsche. Reid: āThere is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.ā Gilbert Parker. Season 4 Episode 8 Masterpiece Rossi: āLet us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddlesā¦ā Mark Twain. Rossi: āMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.ā Martin Luther King, Jr. Season 4 Episode 9 52 Pickup Prentiss: Author Harlan Ellison wrote, āThe minute people fall in love, they become liars.ā Rossi: P. J. OāRourke wrote, āCleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.ā Season 4 Episode 10 Brothers in Arms Morgan: āWe are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.ā Ayn Rand. Morgan: ā⦠For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.ā William Shakespeare. Season 4 Episode 11 Normal Hotchner: āEvery normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.ā H. L. Mencken. Rossi: āThereās no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.ā President Dwight Eisenhower. Season 4 Episode 12 Soul Mates Reid: āNo mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.ā Sigmund Freud. Morgan: British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said, āDelay is the deadliest form of denial.ā Season 4 Episode 13 Bloodline Prentiss: Winston Churchill said, āThere is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.ā Hotchner: Mario Puzo wrote, āThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.ā Season 4 Episode 14 Cold Comfort JJ: āAnd so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side/ Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea.ā Edgar Allan Poe. Rossi: āFor those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who donāt believe, no proof is possible.ā Stuart Chase. Season 4 Episode 15 Zoeās Reprise Rossi: āI never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.ā Albert Einstein. Rossi: Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, āIn youth we learn; in age we understand.ā Season 4 Episode 16 Pleasure is my Business Hotchner: āThe prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.ā Camille Paglia. Season 4 Episode 17 Demonology Prentiss: āHe who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.ā Leonardo da Vinci. Rossi: āThere is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.ā James Joyce. Season 4 Episode 18 Omnivore Hotchner: āFate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.ā Roman author Publilius Syrus. Hotchner: āMen heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.ā John Hobbes. Season 4 Episode 19 House On Fire Hotchner: āWe all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out.ā Tennessee Williams. Hotchner: āI have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love.ā FranƧoise Sagan. Season 4 Episode 20 Conflicted Reid: āLight thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.ā Terry Pratchett. Reid: āMonsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.ā Stephen King. Season 4 Episode 21 A Shade of Gray Rossi: Dr. Burton Grebin once said, āTo lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.ā Rossi: āWithout a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.ā Andre Maurois. Season 4 Episode 22 The Big Wheel Hotchner: āIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.ā Francis Bacon. Morgan: āNo matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.ā George Chakiris. Season 4 Episode 23 Roadkill Hotchner: āIām not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.ā Booth Tarkington. JJ: āThe human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.ā Mahatma Gandhi. Season 4 Episode 24 Amplification Reid: āIt will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt and it will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.ā Exodus 9:9. Reid: āSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.ā Helen Keller. Season 4 Episode 25 ā 26 To Hellā¦And Back Hotchner: āIf there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.ā Flannery OāConnor. Hotchner: Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up whatās happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nine murders at the pig farm, the deaths of Mason and Lucas Turner make 91 lives snuffed out. Kelly Shane will go home and try to recover, to reconnect with her family but sheāll never be a child again. William Hightower, who gave his leg for his country, gave the rest of himself to avenge his sisterās murder. That makes 93 lives forever altered, not counting family and friends in a small town in Sarnia, Ontario, who thought monsters didnāt exist until they learned that they spent their lives with one. And what about my team? How many more times will they be able to look into the abyss? How many more times before they wonāt ever recover the pieces of themselves that this job takes? Like I said, sometimes there are no words or clever quotes to neatly sum up whatās happened that day. The Reaper: You should have made a deal. Hotchner: Sometimes, the day just⦠(Fade to black. A gunshot is heard) Hotchner: ⦠ends. Season 5 Episode 1 Nameless, Faceless Rossi: āA weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards.ā Karl Kraus. Season 5 Episode 2 Haunted Hotchner: āOne need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.ā Emily Dickinson. Hotchner: āThere is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.ā Polybius. Season 5 Episode 3 Reckoner Rossi: āJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.ā Blaise Pascal. Rossi: āI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.ā Abraham Lincoln. Season 5 Episode 4 Hopeless Morgan: Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, āThere is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.ā Morgan: William Shakespeare wrote, āThese violent delights have violent ends.ā Season 5 Episode 5 Cradle to Grave JJ: Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, āYou donāt really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.ā Season 5 Episode 6 The Eyes Have It Morgan: āAnd if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.ā Matthew 5:29. Morgan: āDwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you.ā Guru Nanak. Season 5 Episode 7 The Performer Reid: āIn all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire ā a pariah even among demons.ā Writer Montague Summers. Prentiss: Writer Cyril Connolly said, āBetter to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.ā Season 5 Episode 8 Outfoxed Morgan: āMan usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless itās an enemy.ā Albert Einstein. Season 5 Episode 9 100 Hotchner: āHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.ā Friedrich Nietzsche. Hotchner: Poet Haniel Long said, āSo 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.ā Season 5 Episode 10 The Slave of Duty Hotchner: āWhere we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.ā Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hotchner: āWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.ā Ralph Waldo Emerson Season 5 Episode 11 Retaliation Prentiss: āMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.ā Tacitus Prentiss: āThere is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.ā Washington Irving Season 5 Episode 12 The Uncanny Valley Reid: Peace Pilgrim wrote: āAnything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.ā Reid: Isaac Asimov wrote: āIn life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.ā Season 5 Episode 13 Risky Business JJ: Mother Teresa said, āLife is a game ā play it ⦠Life is too precious, do not destroy it.ā JJ: āExperience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.ā C.S. Lewis Season 5 Episode 14 Parasite Rossi: āOh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.ā Sir Walter Scott. Prentiss: āIf I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?ā German psychologist Erich Fromm. Season 5 Episode 15 Public Enemy Rossi: āWhen a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry.ā William Shakespeare. Rossi: āShow me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.ā F. Scott Fitzgerald. Season 5 Episode 16 Mosley Lane JJ: Emily Dickinson wrote, āHope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.ā JJ: Nietzsche wrote, āHope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.ā Season 5 Episode 17 Solitary Man Morgan: Christopher Lash said, āFamily is a haven in a heartless world.ā Prentiss: Tennessee Williams said, āWeāre all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.ā Season 5 Episode 18 The Fight Hotchner: Mother Teresa said, āI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.ā Season 5 Episode 19 Rite of Passage Hotchner: āMany persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.ā Helen Keller. Prentiss: āA lionās work hours are only when heās hungry. Once heās satisfied, the predator and prey lie peacefully together.ā Chuck Jones. Season 5 Episode 20 ā¦A Thousand Words Rossi: āA sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.ā Painter William Dobell. Hotchner: Gandhi said, āI have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.ā Season 5 Episode 21 Exit Wounds Garcia: āNature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.ā John Morley Garcia: Ralph W. Sockman said, āNothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.ā Season 5 Episode 22 The Internet Is Forever Hotchner: āThe single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.ā George Bernard Shaw. Rossi: āThe Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesnāt understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.ā Eric Schmidt. Season 5 Episode 23 Our Darkest Hour Morgan: Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, āAnd out of the darkness came the hands that reach throā nature, moulding men.ā Season 6 Episode 1 The Longest Night JJ: āA family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.ā The Buddha. Season 6 Episode 2 JJ JJ: Jean Racine said, āA tragedy need not have blood and death; itās enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.ā Season 6 Episode 3 Remembrance of Things Past Rossi: Marcel Proust wrote, āRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.ā Rossi: Mark Twain wrote, āWhen I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so that I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.ā Season 6 Episode 4 Compromising Positions Prentiss: āWe all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.ā Andre Berthiaume Garcia: Abraham Lincoln said, āWhatever you are, be a good one.ā Season 6 Episode 5 Safe Haven Morgan: āAll humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.ā Mahatma Gandhi. Morgan: āBut I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.ā Robert Frost. Season 6 Episode 6 Devilās Night Hotchner: Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, āIf an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.ā Hotchner: Thomas Kempis wrote, āLove feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.ā Season 6 Episode 7 Middle Man Hotchner: āWithout heroes, we are all plain people and donāt know how far we can go.ā Bernard Malamud Hotchner: āThe herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.ā Napoleon Bonaparte Season 6 Episode 8 Reflection of Desire Garcia: āFame will go by and, so long, Iāve had you, fame. If it goes by, Iāve always known it was fickle. So at least itās something I experience, but thatās not where I live.ā Marilyn Monroe Garcia: I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe thatās why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, itās as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, weāre forced to face the truth. Ourselves. Season 6 Episode 9 Into the Woods Morgan: Ralph Ellison said, āI am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.ā Hotchner: Elise Cabot said, āEvil endures a momentās flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell.ā Season 6 Episode 10 What Happens at Home Hotchner: āWhen we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability⦠to be alive is to be vulnerable.ā Writer Madeleine LāEngle Rossi: āChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.ā Writer Oscar Wilde Season 6 Episode 11 25 to Life Morgan: āThere is no such thing as part freedom.ā Nelson Mandela Morgan: āAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them.ā Galileo Season 6 Episode 12 Corazón Reid: āNo man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.ā Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Reid: āThe best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.ā Helen Keller. Season 6 Episode 13 The Thirteenth Step Prentiss: Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, āWhat really raises oneās indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.ā Prentiss: William Glasser wrote, āWhat happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.ā Season 6 Episode 14 Sense Memory Morgan: āHunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they are in the game.ā Comedian Paul Rodriguez. Prentiss: āNothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.ā Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Season 6 Episode 15 Today I Do Prentiss: āThereās no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.ā Ella Wheeler Wilcox Rossi: āItās hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.ā Sally Kempton Season 6 Episode 16 Coda Reid: āTomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, but tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.ā Author James T. Mccay Ian Doyle: Honore de Balzac once said, āMost people of action are inclined to fatalism, and most of thought believe in providence.ā Tell me, Emily Prentiss, which do you think youāre gonna be? Season 6 Episode 17 Valhalla Prentiss: Lao Tzu said, āWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.ā Prentiss: Journalist Dorothea Dix wrote, āConfession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.ā Season 6 Episode 18 Lauren JJ: Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, āPeople will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.ā Prentiss: āThe secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself, even moreso than lying to another.ā Author Elizabeth Bear. Season 6 Episode 19 With Friends Like These⦠Reid: Lizette Reese said, āThe old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out.ā Morgan: Siddhartha Buddha said, āIt is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.ā Season 6 Episode 20 Hanley Waters Morgan: Poet Antonio Porchia wrote, āMan, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.ā Season 6 Episode 21 The Stranger Seaver: āEvery journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events.ā Adrienne Rich Hotchner: āSometimes human places create inhuman monsters.ā Stephen King. Season 6 Episode 22 Out of the Light Rossi: Agathon said, āOf this alone, even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.ā Hotchner: DomĆ©nico Cieri Estrada wrote, āBring the past only if youāre going to build from it.ā Season 6 Episode 23 Big Sea Rossi: āThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.ā Joseph Conrad Morgan: āWe are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.ā John F. Kennedy Season 6 Episode 24 Supply & Demand Hotchner: Thomas Hardy said, āAnd yet to every bad thereās a worse.ā Rossi: āWhat lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.ā Aristotle. Season 7 Episode 1 It Takes a Village JJ: Queen Elizabeth I said, āThe past cannot be cured.ā Prentiss: āI do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.ā FBI oath of office. Season 7 Episode 2 Proof Reid: āIf it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.ā Mark Twain Rossi: Scott Adams wrote, āNothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.ā Season 7 Episode 3 Dorado Falls Reid: āMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.ā Franklin Delano Roosevelt Rossi: āWeāre born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that weāre not alone.ā Orson Welles Season 7 Episode 4 Painless Reid: āYou may leave school, but it never leaves you.ā Andy Partridge Hotch: āPain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.ā Kahlil Gibran Season 7 Episode 5 From Childhoodās Hour Reid: āFrom childhoodās hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw.ā Edgar Allen Poe. Rossi: āAll things truly wicked start from an innocence.ā Ernest Hemingway Season 7 Episode 6 Epilogue Rossi: āTo die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.ā Erich Fromm. Rossi: āThe timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.ā Mary Catherine Bateson. Season 7 Episode 7 Thereās No Place Like Home Hotch: āFor the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.ā George Gissing. JJ: āAdversity is like a strong wind. I donāt mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.ā Arthur Golden. Season 7 Episode 8 Hope Garcia: āHope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.ā George Iles. Garcia: We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.ā (Thank you, LuLu!) Garcia: Thereās a quote by my favorite author, Joseph Campbell, and it goes like this: āFind a place inside where thereās joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.ā Season 7 Episode 9 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Morgan: Morgan: āThings do not change. We change.ā Henry David Thoreau. Col. Massey: Brotherhood is the very price and condition of manās survival. Morgan: Carlos P. Romulo Morgan: āBeware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.ā Jean de la Fontaine. Season 7 Episode 10 The Bittersweet Science Hotch: āEverybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.ā Joe Louis Hotch: āSome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.ā Hermann Hesse Season 7 Episode 11 True Genius Morgan: āThree can keep a secret if two of them are dead.ā Benjamin Franklin. Reid: āThere is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.ā Dante Alighieri Season 7 Episode 12 Unknown Subject Hotch: āWe do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes.ā Alfred Adler. Prentiss: āAll the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.ā Henry Ellis Season 7 Episode 13 Snake Eyes Hotch: A Chinese proverb says, āAt the gambling table, there are no fathers or sons.ā Rossi: George Augustus Sala said, āA gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.ā Season 7 Episode 14 āClosing Timeā Hotch: āFor trust not him that hath once broken faith.ā William Shakespeare Hotch: āYou may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.ā Frank Crane Season 7 Episode 15 āA Thin Lineā Morgan: āEquality may perhaps be a right ā but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.ā Honore de Balzac. Prentiss: āIām for truth, no matter who tells it. Iām for justice, no matter who itās for ā or against.ā Malcolm X. Season 7 Episode 16 āA Family Affairā Morgan: Eckhart Tolle said, āWhere there is anger, there is always pain underneath.ā JJ: āLive so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.ā H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Season 7 Episode 17 āI Love You, Tommy Brownā Morgan: āIt was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.ā Morgan: āFor every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.ā Bo Bennett.ā
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