Explore the closing quotes from Criminal Minds Season 14, where each episode concludes with reflections that emphasize themes of resilience, justice, and humanity. These poignant lines deepen the emotional impact and offer timeless wisdom relevant to the season’s gripping narratives.
Season 14, Episode 1 – “300”
Opening Quote:
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“We are all haunted by something, by the things we’ve done or the things we’ve left undone.”
— David Rossi (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 14, Episode 2 – “Starter Home”
Opening Quote:
“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
— Le Corbusier (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 14, Episode 3 – “Rule 34”
Opening Quote:
“The internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand.”
— Eric Schmidt (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
— Christian Lous Lange (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 14, Episode 4 – “Innocence”
Opening Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“A child’s hand in yours—what tenderness it arouses, what patience it calls forth.”
— Anonymous (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 14, Episode 5 – “The Tall Man”
Opening Quote:
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H.P. Lovecraft (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
— Alfred Hitchcock (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 14, Episode 6 – “Luke”
Opening Quote:
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it.”
— Philip Zimbardo (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
— Carl Jung (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 14, Episode 7 – “Twenty Seven”
Opening Quote:
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
— George Bernard Shaw (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation.”
— Pearl S. Buck (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 14, Episode 8 – “Ashley”
Opening Quote:
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
— Richard Bach (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 14, Episode 9 – “Broken Wing”
Opening Quote:
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
— Luciano De Crescenzo (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
— G.K. Chesterton (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 14, Episode 10 – “Flesh and Blood”
Opening Quote:
“Blood is thicker than water, but sometimes, it’s just as toxic.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
— William Shakespeare (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 14, Episode 11 – “Night Lights”
Opening Quote:
“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 14, Episode 12 – “Hammer Down”
Opening Quote:
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
— Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 14, Episode 13 – “Chameleon”
Opening Quote:
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
— André Berthiaume (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 14, Episode 14 – “Sick and Evil”
Opening Quote:
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
— Joseph Conrad (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 14, Episode 15 – “Truth or Dare”
Opening Quote:
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
— Gloria Steinem (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 14, Episode 16 – “Causality”
Opening Quote:
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 14, Episode 17 – “The Tall Man (Part 2)”
Opening Quote:
“The devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
— Charles Baudelaire (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H.P. Lovecraft (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 14, Episode 18 – “Ghost”
Opening Quote:
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.”
— Sophocles (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 14, Episode 19 – “Silencer”
Opening Quote:
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
— Albert Einstein (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 14, Episode 20 – “To the Bitter End”
Opening Quote:
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
— Dante Alighieri (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke (quoted by David Rossi)
