“Criminal Minds” quotes

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues—the most dominating virtues of human society—are created, strengthened, and maintained.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die in one life before we can enter another.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

Matthew Gray Gubler - Dr. Spencer Reid

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.”

Shemar Moore - Derek Morgan

“I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”

Shemar Moore - Derek Morgan

“Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”

Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner

“Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

Matthew Gray Gubler - Dr. Spencer Reid

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“Hope is the worst of evils for it prolongs the torments of man.”

A.J. Cook - Jennifer Jareau

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon