Step into the gripping world of Criminal Minds Season 6 through these poignant closing quotes. Each episode ends with a thoughtful line that captures the emotional intensity and psychological complexity of the cases and characters, offering a deeper reflection on the series’ themes.
Season 6, Episode 1 – “The Longest Night”
Opening Quote:
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
— Dante Alighieri (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)
Season 6, Episode 2 – “JJ”
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 6, Episode 3 – “Remembrance of Things Past”
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 6, Episode 4 – “Compromising Positions”
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 6, Episode 5 – “Safe Haven”
Opening Quote:
“There is no sanctuary so holy that crime cannot enter it.”
— Sophocles (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Closing Quote:
“Safety is an illusion. The only true security is in knowing how to live with insecurity.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Season 6, Episode 6 – “Devil’s Night”
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 Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 6, Episode 7 – “Middle Man”
Opening Quote:
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it.”
— Philip Zimbardo (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
— Carl Jung (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 6, Episode 8 – “Reflection of Desire”
Opening Quote:
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
— Dorothy Parker (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
— Voltaire (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 6, Episode 9 – “Into the Woods”
Opening Quote:
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 6, Episode 10 – “What Happens at Home”
Opening Quote:
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
— Le Corbusier (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 6, Episode 11 – “25 to Life”
Opening Quote:
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
— Tennessee Williams (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 6, Episode 12 – “Corazon”
Opening Quote:
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 6, Episode 13 – “The Thirteenth Step”
Opening Quote:
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
— Samuel Johnson (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
— J.P. Morgan (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 6, Episode 14 – “Sense Memory”
Opening Quote:
“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Closing Quote:
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Season 6, Episode 15 – “Today I Do”
Opening Quote:
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 6, Episode 16 – “Coda”
Opening Quote:
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
— Hans Christian Andersen (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 6, Episode 17 – “Valhalla”
Opening Quote:
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
— William Shakespeare (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 6, Episode 18 – “Lauren”
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 6, Episode 19 – “With Friends Like These”
Opening Quote:
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
— C.S. Lewis (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 6, Episode 20 – “Hanley Waters”
Opening Quote:
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
— W.H. Auden (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 6, Episode 21 – “The Stranger”
Opening Quote:
“No man is a stranger to another man who has a heart.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“We are all strangers in this world, making our way home.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 6, Episode 22 – “Out of the Light”
Opening Quote:
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
— John 1:5 (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 6, Episode 23 – “Big Sea”
Opening Quote:
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
— Jacques Cousteau (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Closing Quote:
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, we are going back from whence we came.”
— John F. Kennedy (quoted by Emily Prentiss)
Season 6, Episode 24 – “Supply & Demand”
Opening Quote:
“The law of supply and demand is the most basic principle of economics.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by David Rossi)
