Here’s a compilation of the closing quotes from Season 1 of Criminal Minds. Each episode concludes with a poignant quote that reflects the themes explored in the case.
Episode 1 – “Extreme Aggressor”
- Quote 1:
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle… is another riddle.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 3:
“Try again, fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 4:
“Try not. Do or do not.” — Yoda
Spoken by: Derek Morgan - Quote 5:
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.” — Winston Churchill
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 6:
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 2 – “Compulsion”
- Quote 1:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” — Albert Einstein
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“There 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, fear…? These are things that we’re trained to look for.” — James Reese
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 3:
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” — William Faulkner
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 3 – “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
- Quote:
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” — Samuel Johnson
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 4 – “Plain Sight”
- Quote 1:
“Don’t forget that I cannot see myself — that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.” — Jacques Rigaut
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 5 – “Broken Mirror”
- Quote 1:
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” — Euripides
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” — Euripides
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 6 – “L.D.S.K.”
- Quote 1:
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” — William Shakespeare
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 7 – “The Fox”
- Quote:
“With foxes, we must play the fox.” — Thomas Fuller
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 8 – “Natural Born Killer”
- Quote 1:
“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
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” — Carl Jung
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 9 – “Derailed”
- Quote 1:
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind.” — Robert Oxton Bolton
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?” — Albert Einstein
Spoken by: Spencer Reid
Episode 10 – “The Popular Kids”
- Quote 1:
“Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.” — Sir Peter Ustinov
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” — Eugene Ionesco
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 11 – “Blood Hungry”
- Quote 1:
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 12 – “What Fresh Hell?”
- Quote 1:
“Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed… eats at our table.” — W.H. Auden
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 13 – “Poison”
- Quote 1:
“What is food to one is to others bitter poison.” — Lucretius
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” — Confucius
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 14 – “Riding the Lightning”
- Quote 1:
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” — Genesis 9:6
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pine
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 15 – “Unfinished Business”
- Quote 1:
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” — Norman Maclean
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 16 – “The Tribe”
- Quote 1:
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” — Sir Francis Bacon
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 17 – “A Real Rain”
- Quote 1:
“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
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 18 – “Somebody’s Watching”
- Quote 1:
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” — Diane Arbus
Spoken by: Jason Gideon - Quote 2:
“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
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
Episode 19 – “Machismo”
- Quote 1:
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” — Anthony Brandt
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner - Quote 2:
“The house does not rest on the ground but upon a woman.” — Mexican proverb
Spoken by: Aaron Hotchner
Episode 20 – “Charm and Harm”
- Quote 1:
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.” — Voltaire
Spoken by: Jason Gideon
