Explore the captivating final quotes from each episode of Criminal Minds Season 5. These thought-provoking lines offer a window into the complex psychology and emotional depth of the series, leaving you with lasting reflections on the stories and characters.
Season 5, Episode 1 – “Nameless, Faceless”
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 5, Episode 2 – “Haunted”
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 5, Episode 3 – “Reckoner”
Opening Quote:
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
— W.H. Auden (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it.”
— Philip Zimbardo (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 5, Episode 4 – “Hopeless”
Opening Quote:
“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.”
— John Steinbeck (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
— Emily Dickinson (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 5, Episode 5 – “Cradle to Grave”
Opening Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 5, Episode 6 – “The Eyes Have It”
Opening Quote:
“The eyes are the window to the soul.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 5, Episode 7 – “The Performer”
Opening Quote:
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
— William Shakespeare (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 5, Episode 8 – “Outfoxed”
Opening Quote:
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
— Archilochus (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Closing Quote:
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people’s weaknesses.”
— William Hazlitt (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Season 5, Episode 9 – “100”
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 Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 5, Episode 10 – “The Slave of Duty”
Opening Quote:
“Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”
— Robert E. Lee (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 5, Episode 11 – “Retaliation”
Opening Quote:
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“Violence begets violence.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 5, Episode 12 – “The Uncanny Valley”
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 5, Episode 13 – “Risky Business”
Opening Quote:
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
— Katherine Mansfield (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 5, Episode 14 – “Parasite”
Opening Quote:
“A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.”
— Biology Definition (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint, but is conceived and ordered in clear, carpeted, warmed offices.”
— C.S. Lewis (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 5, Episode 15 – “Public Enemy”
Opening Quote:
“The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it up or flee from it.”
— Voltaire (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
— Edward R. Murrow (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 5, Episode 16 – “Mosley Lane”
Opening Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
— Emily Dickinson (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 5, Episode 17 – “Solitary Man”
Opening Quote:
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
— Norman Cousins (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 5, Episode 18 – “The Fight”
Opening Quote:
“It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
— Mark Twain (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Ambrose Redmoon (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 5, Episode 19 – “Rite of Passage”
Opening Quote:
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Closing Quote:
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
— Garth Brooks (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Season 5, Episode 20 – “A Thousand Words”
Opening Quote:
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Photography is truth.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 5, Episode 21 – “Exit Wounds”
Opening Quote:
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Khalil Gibran (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 5, Episode 22 – “The Internet Is Forever”
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 5, Episode 23 – “Our Darkest Hour”
Opening Quote:
“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
