Dive into the closing quotes from Criminal Minds Season 13, where each episode ends with a poignant reflection that highlights the season’s intense emotional and psychological themes. These quotes, ranging from timeless wisdom to original thoughts, deepen the connection to the series’ compelling stories.
Season 13, Episode 1 – “Wheels Up”
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 13, Episode 2 – “To a Better Place”
Opening Quote:
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
— Mitch Albom (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing 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)
Season 13, Episode 3 – “Blue Angel”
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 13, Episode 4 – “Killer App”
Opening Quote:
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
— Christian Lous Lange (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand.”
— Eric Schmidt (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 13, Episode 5 – “Lucky Strikes”
Opening Quote:
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
— Emily Dickinson (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
— Samuel Goldwyn (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 13, Episode 6 – “The Bunker”
Opening Quote:
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it.”
— Philip Zimbardo (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
— Carl Jung (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 13, Episode 7 – “Dust and Bones”
Opening Quote:
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
— Book of Common Prayer (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.”
— Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 13, Episode 8 – “Neon Terror”
Opening Quote:
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
— Desmond Morris (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 13, Episode 9 – “False Flag”
Opening Quote:
“All warfare is based on deception.”
— Sun Tzu (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 13, Episode 10 – “Submerged”
Opening Quote:
“Still waters run deep.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is only a reflection.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 13, Episode 11 – “Full-Tilt Boogie”
Opening Quote:
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller (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 13, Episode 12 – “Bad Moon on the Rise”
Opening Quote:
“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 13, Episode 13 – “Cure”
Opening Quote:
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
— Henry David Thoreau (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 13, Episode 14 – “Annihilator”
Opening Quote:
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov (quoted by Luke Alvez)
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 Luke Alvez)
Season 13, Episode 15 – “Last Gasp”
Opening Quote:
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 13, Episode 16 – “Miasma”
Opening Quote:
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
— Bertrand Russell (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
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 Jennifer Jareau)
Season 13, Episode 17 – “The Capilanos”
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 David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 13, Episode 18 – “The Dance of Love”
Opening Quote:
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
— Martha Graham (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.”
— Agnes de Mille (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 13, Episode 19 – “Ex Parte”
Opening Quote:
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
— William E. Gladstone (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
— Honoré de Balzac (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 13, Episode 20 – “All You Can Eat”
Opening Quote:
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 13, Episode 21 – “Mixed Signals”
Opening Quote:
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
— George Bernard Shaw (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
— Rudyard Kipling (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 13, Episode 22 – “Believer”
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)
