Explore the final thoughts from each episode of Criminal Minds Season 8. This collection features a blend of timeless wisdom and original reflections that deepen the emotional and psychological impact of the series. Whether attributed or anonymous, these closing quotes capture the essence of the stories and characters.
Season 8, Episode 1 – “The 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 8, Episode 2 – “The Pact”
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 8, Episode 3 – “Through the Looking Glass”
Opening Quote:
“We are all mad here.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 8, Episode 4 – “God Complex”
Opening Quote:
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 8, Episode 5 – “The Good Earth”
Opening Quote:
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— George Santayana (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 8, Episode 6 – “The Apprenticeship”
Opening Quote:
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 8, Episode 7 – “The Fallen”
Opening Quote:
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Alex Blake)
Closing Quote:
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
— Proverbs 16:18 (quoted by Alex Blake)
Season 8, Episode 8 – “The Wheels on the Bus”
Opening Quote:
“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 8, Episode 9 – “Magnificent Light”
Opening Quote:
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 8, Episode 10 – “The Lesson”
Opening Quote:
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
— Vernon Sanders Law (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
— Albert Einstein (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 8, Episode 11 – “Perennials”
Opening Quote:
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney, Mulan (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
— E.V. Rogina (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 8, Episode 12 – “Zugzwang”
Opening Quote:
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 8, Episode 13 – “Magnum Opus”
Opening Quote:
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso (quoted by Alex Blake)
Closing Quote:
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
— Henry Ward Beecher (quoted by Alex Blake)
Season 8, Episode 14 – “All That Remains”
Opening Quote:
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Helen Keller (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
— Queen Elizabeth II (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 8, Episode 15 – “Broken”
Opening Quote:
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 8, Episode 16 – “Carbon Copy”
Opening Quote:
“Like father, like son.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 8, Episode 17 – “The Gathering”
Opening Quote:
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
— W.H. Auden (quoted by Alex Blake)
Closing Quote:
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King (quoted by Alex Blake)
Season 8, Episode 18 – “Restoration”
Opening Quote:
“What is broken can be mended. What is hurt can be healed. No matter how dark it gets, the sun will rise again.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”
— Tori Amos (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 8, Episode 19 – “Pay It Forward”
Opening Quote:
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
— Winston Churchill (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 8, Episode 20 – “Alchemy”
Opening Quote:
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Eden Phillpotts (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Magic is just science we don’t understand yet.”
— Arthur C. Clarke (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 8, Episode 21 – “Nanny Dearest”
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:
“A child’s hand in yours—what tenderness it arouses, what patience it calls forth.”
— Anonymous (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 8, Episode 22 – “The Replicator”
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 8, Episode 23 – “The Replicator (Part 2)”
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 8, Episode 24 – “The Replicator (Part 3)”
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)
