Best criminal minds quotes. Criminal minds is an american police procedural crime drama television series that premiered in 2005. The show follows a team of profilers from the fbi’s behavioral analysis unit (bau) who use behavioral analysis and profiling to investigate crimes and find perpetrators. Throughout the show, various characters have been known to share some powerful and inspirational quotes that have resonated with viewers.
Criminal Minds Season 1 Quotes
⭐ “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” —William Shakespeare
⭐ “The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?” —Albert Einstein
⭐ “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” —Albert Pine
⭐ “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
⭐ “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” —Joseph Conrad
⭐ “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” —Winston Churchill
⭐ “Try again, fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
⭐ “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” —Albert Einstein
⭐ “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”—Rose Kennedy
Criminal Minds Season 2 Quotes
⭐ “In order to learn the most important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
⭐ “All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.”—Corey Doctorrow
⭐ “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” —Cicero
⭐ “There can be no good without evil.” —Russian proverb
⭐ “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
⭐ “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde
⭐ “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” —Helen Keller
⭐ “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” —Erich Fromm
Criminal Minds Season 3 Quotes
⭐ “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
⭐ “Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare
⭐ “A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.” —Susan B. Anthony
Criminal Minds Season 4 Quotes
⭐ “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” —Chuck Palahniuk
⭐ “We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” —Ayn Rand
Criminal Minds Season 5 Quotes
⭐ “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
⭐ “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”—George Bernard Shaw
⭐ “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
⭐ “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
⭐ “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”—Sir Walter Scott
Criminal Minds Season 6 Quotes
⭐ “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
⭐ “And yet to every bad there’s a worse.”—Thomas Hardy
Criminal Minds Season 7 Quotes
⭐ “Find the place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”—Joseph Campbell
⭐ “Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.” —Unknown
⭐ “To the living, we owe respect. But to the dead, we owe only the truth.” —Voltaire
Criminal Minds Season 8 Quotes
⭐ “One of the deep secrets in life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” —Lewis Carroll
⭐ “The greatest good you can do for another, is not to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” —Benjamin Disraeli
⭐ “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach
⭐ “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” —Mitch Albom
⭐ “There is no terror after the bang of the gun; only the anticipation in it.” —Alfred Hitchcock
Criminal Minds Season (9 – 14) Quotes
⭐ “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde
⭐ “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
⭐ “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future.” —George Bernard Shaw
⭐ “Your memory is a monster. It summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you.” —John Irving
⭐ It is the man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” —Buddha
⭐ “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch without doing anything.” —Albert Einstein
⭐ “Life is about choices. Some we regret. Some we’re proud of. We are what we choose to be.” — Graham Brown
⭐ “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”—Aristotle
⭐ “Courage is grace under pressure.” —Ernest Hemingway
⭐ “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” —Tony Robbins
⭐ “The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we’re in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.” —Paul Auster
⭐ “And think not that you can direct the course of love. For love finds you worthy directs your course.” —Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet
⭐ “All sins tend to be addictive. And the terminal point of addiction is damnation.” —W.H. Auden
⭐ “Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.” —J.M. Barrie
⭐ “We are all sharks, circling, and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.” —Allan Clark
⭐ “To a father nothing is dearer than a daughter.” —Euripides
⭐ “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body but you will never imprison my mind.” —Mahatma Gandhi
⭐ “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” —Coco Chanel
⭐ “The enemies are within the gates. It is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
⭐ “The clock talked loud. I threw it away. It scared me when it talked.” —Tillie Olsen
⭐ “Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to struggle against entropy.” —Vaclav Havel
⭐ “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” —Theodore Roosevelt
⭐ “A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life.” —Oscar Wilde
⭐ “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” —Honoré de Balzac
⭐ “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
⭐ “By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.” —Angelus Silesius
⭐ “Revenge is an act of passion, vengeance of justice.” —Samuel Johnson
⭐ “The darkness always lies.” —Anthony Liccione
⭐ “You see what power is — holding someone else’s fear in our hand and showing it to them.” — Amy Tan
⭐ “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” —John Steinbeck
⭐ “The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.” —Ferdinand Magellan
⭐ “God sometimes takes us into troubled waters, not to drown us, but to cleanse us.” —Unknown
⭐ “We all have a monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.” —Douglas Preston
⭐ “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” —Soren Kirkegaard
⭐ “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that they will somehow connect in your future.” —Steve Jobs
⭐ “People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.” —Don Miguel Ruiz
⭐ “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” —Anonymous
⭐ “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” —Iris Murdoch
⭐ “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” —Maya Angelou
⭐ “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” —Richard Bach
⭐ The universe doesn’t like the secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth to lead you to it.” —Lisa Unger
⭐ Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.” —Paul Boese
Referenced in “The Road Home” (Season 9, Episode 13)
⭐ “When you look into an abyss…The abyss looks into you.” —Nietzsche
⭐ “There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.”—Unknown
Referenced in “Rabid” (Season 9, Episode 18)
⭐ “I remained too much in my head and ended up losing my mind.” —Edgar Allan Poe
⭐ “Just because everything’s different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” —Irene Peter
⭐ “We knew the world would not be the same. Some people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” —J. Robert Oppenheimer
⭐ “Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of the truth.” —Ludwig Börne
⭐ “Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.” —Vittorio Alfieri
⭐ “Naïveté in grown ups 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 present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
⭐ “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
⭐ “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
⭐ “As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new and near the end, the milestones into headstones change, ‘neath every one a friend.” —James Russell Lowell
⭐ “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
⭐ “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” —Euripides
Verdict
The characters of criminal minds have provided us with many memorable and motivational quotes to help us in our own lives. Whether it’s to encourage us to keep going, remind us to stay strong, or to push us to do the right thing, the words of the characters have helped us to stay focused and determined. We can thank criminal minds for these inspiring words that have encouraged us and reminded us that no matter what, justice will prevail.
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