Discover the thought-provoking closing quotes from Criminal Minds Season 7. Each episode wraps with a line that resonates with the themes of the story and the psychological depth of the characters, inviting reflection on the mysteries explored throughout the season.
Episode 1 – “It Takes a Village”
- Opening Quote:
“The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.” — Henry Becque
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” — Euripides
Spoken by: David Rossi
Episode 2 – “Proof”
- Opening Quote:
“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.” — Sophocles
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
Spoken by: Derek Morgan
Episode 3 – “Dorado Falls”
- Opening Quote:
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” — Albert Einstein
Spoken by: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau - Closing Quote:
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” — Kevin Arnold
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 4 – “Painless”
- Opening Quote:
“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
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” — Michel de Montaigne
Spoken by: Derek Morgan
Episode 5 – “From Childhood’s Hour”
- Opening Quote:
“There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” — Arthur Rubinstein
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“What is done to children, they will do to society.” — Karl Menninger
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 6 – “Epilogue”
- Opening Quote:
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” — Mitch Albom
Spoken by: David Rossi - Closing Quote:
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
Spoken by: David Rossi
Episode 7 – “There’s No Place Like Home”
- Opening Quote:
“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” — Unknown
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“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
Spoken by: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau
Episode 8 – “Hope”
- Opening Quote:
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
Spoken by: Derek Morgan - Closing Quote:
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” — George Iles
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss
Episode 9 – “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy”
- Opening Quote:
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Laurell K. Hamilton
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 10 – “The Bittersweet Science”
- Opening Quote:
“A boxer’s courage is like a sword forged and tempered in fire.” — Unknown
Spoken by: David Rossi - Closing Quote:
“You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.” — Paul Brown
Spoken by: Derek Morgan
Episode 11 – “True Genius”
- Opening Quote:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.” — Albert Einstein
Spoken by: Spencer Reid - Closing Quote:
“Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.” — Elbert Hubbard
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss
Episode 12 – “Unknown Subject”
- Opening Quote:
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” — William Penn
Spoken by: David Rossi - Closing Quote:
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” — Fulton J. Sheen
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 13 – “Snake Eyes”
- Opening Quote:
“In gambling, the many must lose in order that the few may win.” — George Bernard Shaw
Spoken by: Derek Morgan - Closing Quote:
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” — Richard Nixon
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 14 – “Closing Time”
- Opening Quote:
“Trust not him that has once broken faith.” — William Shakespeare
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” — Frank Crane
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 15 – “A Thin Line”
- Opening Quote:
“The brutal truth is, the drumbeat of racial hatred is incessant, and it’s being encouraged by the loudest voices in the nation.” — Charles Rangel
Spoken by: Derek Morgan - Closing Quote:
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss
Episode 16 – “A Family Affair”
- Opening Quote:
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” — George Moore
Spoken by: David Rossi - Closing Quote:
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” — Brad Henry
Spoken by: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau
Episode 17 – “I Love You, Tommy Brown”
- Opening Quote:
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” — Blaise Pascal
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 18 – “Foundation”
- Opening Quote:
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff
Spoken by: Derek Morgan
Episode 19 – “Heathridge Manor”
- Opening Quote:
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.” — William Shakespeare
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.” — Zadok Rabinowitz
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 20 – “The Company”
- Opening Quote:
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.” — Buddha
Spoken by: Derek Morgan - Closing Quote:
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” — Buddha
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 21 – “Divining Rod”
- Opening Quote:
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures.” — W. H. Auden
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Spoken by: David Rossi
Episode 22 – “Profiling 101”
- Opening Quote:
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate… to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoken by: David Rossi - Closing Quote:
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike
Spoken by: David Rossi
Episode 23 – “Hit”
- Opening Quote:
“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
Spoken by: Emily Prentiss - Closing Quote:
“The darkness always lies. Let it.” — David Levithan
Spoken by: Derek Morgan
Episode 24 – “Run”
- Opening Quote:
“To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around it.” — Richie Norton
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Closing Quote:
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon
Spoken by: David Rossi
