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Criminal Minds Quotes


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 1

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try again, fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett

Try not, do or do not. ~Yoda

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. ~Winston Churchill

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.~Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Albert Einstein

There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for. ~James Reese

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson

Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.~Jacques Rigaut

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~Rose Kennedy

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. ~Euripides

The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. ~William Shakespeare

With foxes, we must play the fox. ~Thomas Fuller

There 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. ~Ernest Hemingway


The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ~Carl Jung

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. ~Robert Oxton Bolton

The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy? ~Albert Einstein

Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ~Sir Peter Ustinov

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~Eugene Ionesco

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table. ~W.H. Auden

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is food to one is to others bitter poison. ~Lucretious


Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Confucius

Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. ~Genesis 9:6

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pine

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. ~Norman Maclean
Who in his mind has not probe the dark water? ~ John Steinbeck

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ~Sir Francis Bacon

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Murder 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. ~W.H. Auden

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. ~Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. ~Mahatma Gandhi

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ~Diane Arbus

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country. ~George Bernard Shaw

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ~Anthony Brandt

The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman. ~Mexican proverb

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. ~Voltaire

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. ~François de la Rochefoucauld

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~Albert Einstein

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~George Orwell

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 2

The 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. ~Francois de la Roche Foucauld

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. ~ Mark Twain

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars. ~Khalil Gibran


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone. ~Milan Kundera

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. ~Helen Keller

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato

It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it. ~John Wooden

The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate. ~Erich Fromm

Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize. And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ~Maximilien Robespierre

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. ~Elbert Hubbard

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. ~Mahatma Ghandi

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. ~ Dale Turner

In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. ~T.S Eliot

Between 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. ~T.S Eliot

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. ~Cory Doctorow

Evil brings men together. ~Aristotle

I didn't have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it. ~Perry Smith

There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins. ~Ecclesiastes 7:20

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ~Socrates

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. ~Cicero

Our life is made by the death of others. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~Thomas Paine

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ~Robert Kennedy

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ~John Calvin

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mahatma Ghandi

There can be no good without evil. ~Russian Proverb

Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~Leo Tolstoy

One man's wilderness is another man's theme park. ~unknown

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ~James Anthony Froud

Of 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. ~Herman Melville

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. ~Charles Chaplin

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ~Oscar Wilde




Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 3


Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. ~George Washington

He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ~Lao Tzu

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the individual's soul. ~Barbara Ehrenreich

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky


Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. ~G.K. Chesterton 

Now 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 ones part until the manager walks them off the stage? ~Erasmus

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. ~Martin Luther

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. ~Francisco Goya

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. ~Thomas Deloney

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities. ~Clive Barker

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. ~Frank Miller

It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was. ~Anne Sexton

A simple child that lightly draws it's breath and feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? ~Wordsworth

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. ~Daisy Bates

It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~William Shakespeare

I 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. ~Euripides

For 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. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. ~Dr. R. Joseph

There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. ~Arthur Rubinstein
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ~Daniel Webster

The 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. ~Ben Okri

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. ~John Steinbeck

We 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. ~Tom Stoppard

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. ~George Bernard Shaw

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. ~John Churton Collins

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ~Christian Nestell Bovee

A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. ~Susan B. Anthony

All 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. ~Anatole France

The 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. ~Voltaire



Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 4

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ~Chuck Palahniuk


The 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. ~Wendell Berry

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. ~Benjamin Franklin
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. ~Ayn Rand

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. ~Thomas Fuller



Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. ~Phaedrus

Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer. ~Zulu Proverb

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be. ~Gerald Gould

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response. ~Amos Bronson Alcott

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. ~Bob Dylan

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. ~Gilbert Parker

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles. ~Mark Twain

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The minute people fall in love, they become liars. ~Harlan Ellison

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. ~P.J. O'Rourke

We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. ~Ayn Rand

For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. ~William Shakespeare

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. ~H.L. Mencken

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. ~Dwight Eisenhower

No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ~Sigmund Freud

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ~C. Northcote Parkinson

There 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. ~Winston Churchill

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~Mario Puzo

And 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. ~Edgar Allan Poe

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. ~Stuart Chase

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~Albert Einstein

In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The 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. ~Camille Paglia

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ~James Joyce

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. ~Publilius Syrus

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny. ~John Hobbes

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out. ~Tennessee Williams

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love. ~Francoise Sagan

Light 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. ~Terry Pratchett

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ~Stephen King

To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself. ~Dr. Burton Grebin

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ~Andre Maurois

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ~Francis Bacon

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible. ~George Chakiris

I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. ~Booth Tarkington

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ~Mahatma Ghandi

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. ~Helen Keller

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. ~Flannery O'Connor

Sometimes there are no words. No clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day... sometimes the day... just... ends. ~Aaron Hotchner


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 5

A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards. ~Carl Kraus

One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place. ~Emily Dickinson

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ~Polybius

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ~Blaise Pascal

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice. ~Abraham Lincoln



There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. ~Kingman Brewster, Jr.

These violent delights have violent ends. ~William Shakespeare

You don't 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. ~William D. Tammeus

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee... ~Matthew 5:29

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you. ~Guru Nanak

In all the darkest pages in the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of a vampire - a pariah even among demons. ~Montague Summers

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly



Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy. ~Albert Einstein

He 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. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It's love that makes the world go round. ~W. S. Gilbert

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. ~Tacitus

There 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. ~Washington Irving

Anything 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. ~Mildred Lisette Norman

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. ~Isaac Asimov

Life is a game, play it....Life is too precious, do not destroy it. ~Mother Teresa

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. ~C.S. Lewis

If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I? ~Erich Fromm

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. ~Sir Walter Scott

Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. ~William Shakespeare

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ~Tennessee Williams

The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Christopher Lasch

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ~Mother Teresa

A lions work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. ~Chuck Jones

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~Helen Keller

A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. ~William Dobell

I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. ~Mohandas Gandhi

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man. ~John Morley

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. ~Ralph W. Sockman

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~George Bernard Shaw

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 6

A 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. ~Buddha

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ~Jean Racine

I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go. ~ Jennifer Jareau (JJ)

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ~Marcel Proust

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain

Whatever you are, be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin. ~André Berthiaume

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.~Mahatma Ghandi

But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost

If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible. ~Thomas A. Kempis

The herds seek out the great, not for their seed, but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. ~Bernard Malamud

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ~Marilyn Monroe

I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. And in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. Some point, we're forced to face the truth...ourselves. ~Penelope Garcia

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison


Evil endures a moment's flush and then leaves but a burnt up shell. ~Elise Cabot

When 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. ~Madeleine L'Engle

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as part freedom. ~Nelson Mandela

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~Galileo Galilei

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. ~Frederich Nietzsche

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today. ~William Glasser

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. ~Vladimir Nabokov

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton



There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. ~James T. McKay

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence. ~Honore de Balzac

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ~Dorothea Dix

The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another. ~Elizabeth Bear

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it. ~Walter Langer

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out. ~Lizette Reese

It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. ~Antonio Porchia

Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters. ~Stephen King

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. ~Adrienne Rich

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been. ~Agathon

Bring the past only if you're going to build from it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad

We 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. ~John F. Kennedy 

And yet to every bad there's a worse. ~Thomas Hardy

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do. ~Aristotle


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 7

The past cannot be cured. ~Queen Elizabeth I

I 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. ~Emily Prentiss

If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary. ~Mark Twain

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. ~Scott Adams

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. ~Orson Welles


You may leave school, but it never leaves you. ~Andy Partridge

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~Khalil Gibran

From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw. ~Edgar Allan Poe
All things truly wicked start from an innocence. ~Ernest Hemingway

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ~Erich Fromm

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeded it. ~Mary Catherine Bateson

For the man sound in body and serene in mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every day has its beauty and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are. ~Arthur Golden

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ~Joseph Campbell

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. ~Aamnah Akram

Things do not change. We change. ~Henry David Thoreau

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. ~Jean de La Fountaine

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. ~Joe Louis

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~Benjamin Franklin
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ~Dante Alighieri

We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it what suits our purposes. ~Alfred Adler

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Henry Ellis

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb

A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane. ~George Augustus Sala

For trust not him that hath once broken faith. ~William Shakespeare

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will leave in torment if you don't trust enough. ~Frank Crane

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ~Honore de Balzac

I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against. ~Malcolm X
Where there's anger, there is always pain underneath. ~Eckhart Tolle

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to. ~unknown

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. ~Bo Bennett
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel de Montaigne

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ~Oscar Wilde
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. ~Edgar Allen Poe

Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie. ~Robert Brault

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ~William Blake

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. ~Friedrich Dürrenmatt

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ~Voltaire

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~John F.Bell

I've always heard every ending is also a new beginning, we just don't know it at the time, I'd like to believe that's true. ~Emily Prentiss






Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 8

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie

A man is known by the silence he keeps. ~Oliver Herford

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery for man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ~Ralph Steadman

If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less. ~Paul Brown

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their true image. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ~Lewis Carroll

When a doctor does go wrong, he's the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has knowledge. ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~Dr. Jeff Miller

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are. ~Alfred Austin

Better than a thousand days of diligent study, is one day with a great teacher. ~Japanese Proverb

The greatest good you can do for another, is not to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli

You never find yourself until you face the truth. ~Pearl Bailey

I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise. ~Abraham Lincoln

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. ~Sydney Smith

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another. ~Thomas Merton

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. ~William Shakespeare

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. ~Mason Cooley

I have never yet heard of a murderer who is not afraid of a ghost. ~John Philpot Curran

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ~Marie Antoinette

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over. ~Nicole Sobon

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or joy. ~Alan Lightman

Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ~Anaïs Nin

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places. ~Ernest Hemingway

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ~John 13:34

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ~Charles Caleb Colton

I can resist anything except temptation. ~Oscar Wilde

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

For darkness restores what light cannot repair. ~Joseph Brodsky

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! ~Terry Goodkind

There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again. ~Terry Goodkind

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Eugene de Bono

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ~Alfred Tennyson

Alone, all alone. Nobody, but nobody can make it out here alone. ~Maya Angelou

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ~Carl Jung

We are not the same persons this year as we are last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham

Cruel is the strife of brothers. ~Aristotle

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ~Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. ~Richard Bach

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ~H. G. Wells


Criminal Minds Quotes ~Season 9

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ~Amy Tan

There are two things for which we are never really prepared for: twins. ~Josh Billings

We are not only our brother’s keeper; in countless large and small ways we are our brother’s maker. ~Bonaro Overstreet

They mess you up, your Mom and Dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra - just for you. ~Philip Larkin

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. ~John F. Kennedy

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift. ~ Mary Oliver


Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. ~Norman Cousins

Life is a dream, realize it. ~Mother Teresa

After all, what is every man but a horde of ghosts? Oaks that were acorns that were oaks. ~Walter de la Mare

Death ends a life, not a relationship. ~Mitch Albom

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ~Frank Clark

There is no terror in the bang of the gun; only the anticipation of it. ~Alfred Hitchcock

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ~Edmund Burke
The universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. ~Lisa Unger

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~Aristotle

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ~Albert Einstein

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese proverb

Alone, we can do so little. Together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. ~Bill Watterson

Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look. ~James Burke

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse - millions of tiny moments that create your love story. ~Jennifer Smith

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ~Michael Murdock
There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world. ~unknown

A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ~Salvador Dali
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. ~Arthur Erickson

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. ~Hippocrates

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. ~Baltasar Gracián

No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you? ~Barbara Marciniak

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain, the mind must leave reality behind. ~Patrick Rothfuss

The past is never dead. It's not even past. ~William Faulkner

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. ~Albert Einstein

He who is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~Proverb

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de la Fontaine

The name written on her forehead was a mystery: Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the Earth. ~Revelation 17:5

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. ~Émile Zola

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell


Criminal Minds Quotes ~ Season 10

I remained too much inside my head, and ended up losing my mind. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ~Winston Churchill
It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. ~J.C. Watts

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. ~Bhavagad-Gita

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer

What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, that rubbing the poor itch of your opinion make yourselves scabs? ~William Shakespeare

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ~Ludwig Borne

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ~Vittorio Alfieri

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking. ~Albert Einstein

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ~Jean Baudrillare

Always kiss your children good night, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity, it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ~Eric Hoffer

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it; to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. ~Alvin Toffler

Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. ~John F. Kennedy

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be. ~Julia Glass

Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. ~Psalm 51

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. ~Sophocles

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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