SEASON 1 QUOTES Episode
Quote
Author
Who said it
Joseph Conrad
Gideon
"The belief in a supernatural source 1x01 "Extreme Aggressor" (6 quotes)
of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." "All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle." "Try again, fail again. Fail better." "Try not, do or do not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gideon
Samuel Beckett
Gideon
Yoda
Morgan
Winston Churchill
Gideon
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gideon
Albert Einstein
Gideon
James Reese
Gideon
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." "Imagination is more 1x02, "Compulsion" (3 quotes)
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their
very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for." "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to
William Faulkner
Gideon
Samuel Johnson
Gideon
be better than yourself." "Almost all absurdity 1x03, "Won't Get of conduct arises Fooled Again" from the imitation of (1 quote) those whom we cannot resemble." "Don't forget that I 1x04, "Plain Sight" (2 quotes)
cannot see myself -that my role is limited Jacques Rigaut
Gideon
to being the one who looks in the mirror." "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever
Rose Kennedy
Gideon
sunlight remains to them?" 1x05, "Broken Mirror" (2 quotes)
"When a good man is Euripides hurt, all who would be called good must
Gideon
suffer with him." "When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor
Euripides
Gideon
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gideon
worthiness." "The irrationality of a 1x06, "L.D.S.K." (2 quotes)
thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it." "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
1x07, "The Fox" (1 quote)
"With foxes, we must play the fox."
(attributed to) William Shakespeare
Hotch
Thomas Fuller
Gideon
Ernest Hemingway
Gideon
"There is no hunting like the hunting of 1x08, "Natural Born Killer" (2 quotes)
man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else." "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is Carl Jung
Gideon
the tortured who turn into torturers." "A belief is not merely an idea the mind 1x09, "Derailed" possesses. It is an (2 quotes) idea that possesses the mind."
Robert Oxton Bolton Gideon
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the
Albert Einstein
Reid
others crazy?" "Unfortunately, a 1x10, "The Popular Kids" (2 quotes)
super-abundance of dreams is paid for by Sir Peter Ustinov
Gideon
a growing potential for nightmares." "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us
Eugene Ionesco
Gideon
together." "The bitterest tears 1x11, "Blood Hungry" (1 quote)
shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gideon
undone." "Evil is always 1x12, "What Fresh Hell?" (2 quotes)
unspectacular and always human. And
W.H. Auden
Gideon
shares our bed...and eats at our table." "Measure not the work until the day's
Elizabeth Barrett
out and the labor
Browning
Gideon
done." 1x13, "Poison" (2 quotes)
"What is food to one is to others bitter
Lucretious
Gideon
Confucius
Gideon
poison." "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two
graves." "Who so sheddeth 1x14, "Riding the man's blood by man Lightning" shall his blood be (2 quotes) shed."
Genesis 9:6
Gideon
Albert Pine attributed to Pine, but "What we do for
actually by Mason
ourselves dies with
Albert Pike, from his
us. What we do for
book “Ex Corde
others and the world, Locutiones: Words remains and is
from the Heart
immortal."
Spoken of His Dead
Gideon
Brethren” (Google Books link) 1x15, "Unfinished Business" (3 quotes)
"It is those we live with and love and should know who
Norman Maclean
Gideon
elude us." Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?
"East from Eden" John Steinbeck (here used in a puzzle by
(read by) Reid
the Keystone Killer) Sir Francis Bacon
"In order for the light
(here used in a
to shine so brightly,
puzzle by The
the darkness must be Keystone Killer and present."
(read by) Max Ryan
in Max Ryan's book on page 184).
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
Elle
"The individual has always had to 1x16, "The Tribe" struggle to keep from Friedrich Nietzsche (1 quote) being overwhelmed
Hotch
by the tribe." "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so 1x17, "A Real Rain" (3 quotes)
that society must take the place of the
W.H. Auden
Gideon
Mahatma Gandhi
Gideon
Mahatma Gandhi
Hotch
Diane Arbus
Gideon
victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness." "It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
1x18, "Somebody's Watching" (2 quotes)
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." "An American has no George Bernard sense of privacy. He Shaw does not know what it
Gideon
means. There is no such thing in the country." 1x19, "Machismo" (2 quotes)
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with
Anthony Brandt
Hotch
Mexican proverb
Hotch
Voltaire
Gideon
family." "The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman." "There are some that 1x20, "Charm and Harm" (2 quotes)
only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become
François de la Rochefoucauld
Gideon
disguised to ourselves." "Whoever undertakes 1x21, "Secrets and Lies" (2 quotes)
to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge
Albert Einstein
Gideon
George Orwell
Gideon
Elbert Hubbard
Gideon
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." 1x22, "The
"No man needs a
Fisher King (1)" (1 quote)
vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
SEASON 2 QUOTES
Episode
Quote
Author
Who said it
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds 2x01, "The Fisher King (2)" (2 quotes)
in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still
Francois de la Roche Foucauld
Gideon
there will be a scar left behind." "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers
Rose Kennedy
Reid
them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." 2x02, "P911" (1 quote)
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gideon its children." "Of all the animals, man is
2x03, "The Perfect the only one that is cruel. Storm" He is the only one who (2 quotes) inflicts pain for the
Mark Twain
Gideon
Khalil Gibran
Hotch
pleasure of doing it." "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest
souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." 2x04, "Psychodrama" (2 quotes)
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he
Oscar Wilde
Hotch
Milan Kundera
Hotch
will tell you the truth." "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." "Although the world is full 2x05, "Aftermath" of suffering, it is also full of Helen Keller (1 quote) overcoming it."
Gideon
"We can easily forgive a 2x06, "The Boogeyman" (1 quote)
child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of
Plato
Hotch
John Wooden
JJ
life is when men are afraid of the light."
2x07, "North Mammon" (2 quotes)
"It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it." "The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, Erich Fromm
JJ
is to create or destroy, to love or to hate." "Crime butchers innocents 2x08, "Empty Planet" (1 quote)
to secure a prize. And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
Maximilien Robespierre
Gideon
2x09, "The Last Word" (2 quotes)
"If men could only know each other, they would
Elbert Hubbard
Gideon
neither idolize nor hate." "Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, Mahatma Ghandi
Hotch
they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." "Some of the best lessons 2x10, "Lessons Learned" (2 quotes)
are learned from past mistakes. The error of the
Dale Turner
Gideon
past is the wisdom of the future." "In order to learn the most important lessons of life,
Ralph Waldo
one must each day
Emerson
Gideon
surmount a fear." 2x11, "Sex, Birth, Death" (2 quotes"
"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the
T.S. Eliot
Reid
T.S. Eliot
Reid
Cory Doctorow
Morgan
shadow." "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends." 2x12, "Profiler, Profiled" (1 quote)
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of
secrets." 2x13, "No Way Out" (1 quote)
"Evil brings men together." Aristotle
Gideon
"I didn't have anything against them, and they 2x14, "The Big Game" (1 quote)
never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life.
Perry Smith
Gideon
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Hotch
Socrates
Gideon
Cicero
Reid
Leonardo Da Vinci
Gideon
Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it." 2x15, "Revelations" (1 quote)
"There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins."
2x16, "Fear and Loathing" (2 quotes)
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
2x17, "Distress" (2 quotes)
"Our life is made by the death of others." "If there must be trouble,
let it be in my day, that my Thomas Paine
Hotch
child may have peace." 2x18, "Jones" (1 quote) 2x19, "Ashes and Dust" (2 quotes)
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a Robert Kennedy
Gideon
guide by which to live." "The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
John Calvin
Hotch
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you
Mahatma Ghandi
Hotch
Russian proverb
Prentiss
Leo Tolstoy
Prentiss
Unknown
Gideon
were to live forever." 2x20, "Honor Among Thieves" (2 quotes)
"There can be no good without evil." "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
2x21, "Open Season" (2 quotes)
"One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and
James Anthony
death of his fellow
Froud
Prentiss
creatures is amusing in itself." "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, 2x22, "Legacy" (2 quotes)
nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the
Herman Melville
Hotch
Charles Chaplin
Hotch
Oscar Wilde
Gideon
habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles."
2x23, "No Way Out "I choose my friends for II: The Evilution their good looks, my of Frank" acquaintances for their (1 quote) good characters, and my
enemies for their good intellects."
SEASON 3 QUOTES
Episode
Quote
3x02, "In Name and Blood" (1 quote)
"Let your heart feel
Author
for the afflictions and George Washington
Who said it
Hotch
distress of everyone." "He who controls
3x03, "Scared to Death" (2 quotes)
others may be powerful but he who
Philosopher Lao Tzu Hotch
has mastered himself is mightier still." "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hotch
Barbara Ehrenreich
Prentiss
look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." 3x04, "Children of the Dark" (1 quote)
"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the
individual's soul." "Nothing is easier 3x05, "Seven Seconds" (2 quotes)
than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hotch
G.K. Chesterton
Hotch
Erasmus
Hotch
Martin Luther
Rossi
more difficult than understanding him." "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." "Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various
3x06, "About Face" (1 quote)
actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?" "An earthly kingdom cannot exist without
3x07 "Identity" (1 quote)
inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."
3x08 "Lucky"
"Fantasy abandoned Francisco Goya
Morgan
by reason produces (2 Quotes)
impossible monsters." "God sends meat and the devil sends
Thomas Deloney
Morgan
cooks." 3x09 "Penelope" (1 quote)
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare Garcia
"Superman is, after 3x10 "True Night" (2 quotes)
all, an alien life form. He's simply the
Clive Barker
Reid
Frank Miller
Garcia
Anne Sexton
Hotch
Wordsworth
JJ
Daisy Bates
Hotch
acceptable face of invading realities." "The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” "It doesn't matter who
3x11 "Birthright" my father was, it (2 quotes) matters who I remember he was." "A simple child that lightly draws it's breath and feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?" 3x12 "3rd Life" (2 quotes)
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her
own way is without enemies." "It is a wise father that knows his own
William Shakespeare Hotch
child." "I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my 3x13 "Limelight" afterthoughts is my Euripides (2 quotes) fury...fury that brings
Rossi
upon mortals the greatest evils." "For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although
Lucy Maud
ambitions are well
Montgomery
Rossi
worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." "...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This 3x14 "Damaged" child constitutes the (2 quotes) foundation of what
Neuroscientist, Dr. R. Joseph
Rossi
we have become, who we are, and what we will be." "There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life
Arthur Rubinstein
Hotch
and what it brings." 3x15 "A Higher Power" (2 quotes)
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide
Daniel Webster
Rossi
is confession." "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, Ben Okri
Prentiss
to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." "A sad soul can kill 3x16 "Elephant's you quicker, far Memory" quicker, than a (2 quotes) germ."
John Steinbeck
Reid
Tom Stoppard
Reid
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." "There are no secrets 3x17 "In Heat" (2 quotes)
better kept than the
George Bernard
secrets that
Shaw
JJ
everybody guesses." "If we knew each other's secrets, what
John Churton Collins JJ
comforts we should find." "No man is happy 3x18 "The Crossing" (2 quotes)
without a delusion of some kind. Delusions Christian Nestell are as necessary to
Bovee
Prentiss
our happiness as realities." "A woman must not depend upon the protection of man,
Susan B. Anthony
JJ
but must be taught to protect herself. " "All changes, even the most longed for, have their 3x19 "Tabula Rasa" (2 quotes)
melancholy; for what we leave behind us is Anatole France
Hotch
a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." "What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find
William Wordsworth (This is not a quote but part of a poem.)
Reid
strength in what remains behind." "The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes 3x20 "Lo-Fi" (1 quote)
dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the
Voltaire
Hotch
man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."
SEASON 4 QUOTES
Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
"Never think that 4x01 "Mayhem" (1 quote)
war, no matter how necessary, nor how Ernest Hemingway
Hotch
justified, is not a crime." “We all die. The
4x02 "The Angel Maker" (2 quotes)
goal isn't to live forever, the goal is
Chuck Palahniuk
Hotch
to create something that will.” “The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is Wendell Berry bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
Hotch
"To follow by faith 4x03 "Minimal Loss" alone is to follow (2 quotes) blindly."
Benjamin Franklin
Reid
Ayn Rand
Prentiss
Thomas Fuller
Hotch
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." 4x04 "Paradise" (2 quotes)
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." "Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance
deceives many; the Phaedrus
Hotch
intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden." "Plenty sit still. 4x05 "Catching Out" Hunger is a (2 quotes) wanderer."
Zulu proverb
Prentiss
Gerald Gould
Prentiss
"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wanderthirst that will not let me be." 4x06 "The Instincts" "Who speaks to the Amos Bronson Alcott (2 quotes) instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest
Hotch
response." "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which
Bob Dylan
Reid
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reid
nature can't touch with decay." “What was silent in the father speaks in 4x07 "Memoriam" (2 quotes)
the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.” “There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this
world. The spirits of Gilbert Parker
Reid
our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.” "Let us consider that we are all 4x08 "Masterpiece" (2 quotes)
insane. It will explain us to each
Mark Twain
Rossi
other; it will unriddle many riddles..." "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr. Rossi
4x09 "52 Pickup" (2 quotes)
"The minute people fall in love, they
Harlan Ellison
Prentiss
P.J. O'Rourke
Rossi
Ayn Rand
Morgan
William Shakespeare
Morgan
H.L. Mencken
Hotch
become liars." "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely." "We are all brothers
4x10 "Brothers in Arms" (2 quotes)
under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." "...for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." "Every normal man must be tempted at
4x11 "Normal" (2 quotes)
times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to
President Dwight Eisenhower
Rossi
the way they were." 4x12 "Soul Mates " (2 quotes)
"No mortal can keep Sigmund Freud a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his
Reid
fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson
Morgan
"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest 4x13 "Bloodline" (2 quotes)
virtues, the most dominating virtues
Winston Churchill
Prentiss
of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained." "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, Mario Puzo
Hotch
is in its loyalty to each other." "And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side. Of my darling, my
Edgar Allan Poe (this
4x14 "Cold Comfort" darling, my life and is from his poem, (2 quotes) my bride. In the "Annabel sepulchre there by
JJ
Lee").
the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea." "For those who believe, no proof is
Stuart Chase
Rossi
necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." "I never teach my pupils; I only 4x15 "Zoe's Reprise" attempt to provide (2 quotes) the conditions in
Albert Einstein
Rossi
which they can learn." "In youth we learn;
Austrian novelist,
in age we
Marie von Ebner-
understand."
Eschenbach
Rossi
"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of 4x16 "Pleasure is my Business" (1 quote)
men, but rather their conqueror, an
Camille Paglia
Hotch
Leonardo Da Vinci
Prentiss
James Joyce
Rossi
outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." "He who does not
4x17 "Demonology" (2 quote)
punish evil, commands it to be done." There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
4x18 "Omnivore" (2 quotes)
“Fate is not satisfied Roman author
Hotch
with inflicting one calamity.”
Publilius Syrus
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a
John Hobbes
Hotch
Tennessee Williams
Hotch
Francoise Sagan
Hotch
Terry Pratchett
Reid
monster they call destiny.” "We all live in a 4x19 "House On Fire house on fire, no " fire department to (2 quotes) call; no way out." "I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love." "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter 4x20 "Conflicted" (2 quotes)
how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real
too. They live inside Stephen King us, and sometimes, they win."
Reid
4x21 " A Shade of Gray" (2 quotes)
"To lose a child is to lose a piece of
Dr. Burton Grebin
Rossi
Andre Maurois
Rossi
Francis Bacon
Hotch
George Chakiris
Morgan
Booth Tarkington
Hotch
Mahatma Ghandi
JJ
Exodus 9:9
Reid
yourself." "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
4x22 "The Big Wheel" (2 quotes)
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." "No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." “I'm not sure about automobiles. With
4x23 "Roadkill" (2 quotes)
all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization.” “The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”
4x24 "Amplification" "It will become fine (2 quotes) dust over all the land of Egypt and it will become boils breaking out with sores on man and
beast through all the land of Egypt." "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children
Helen Keller
Reid
Flannery O'Connor
Hotch
of men as a whole experience it." 4x25/26 "To Hell...And Back" (2 quotes)
"If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity." "Sometimes there are no words. No clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day... sometimes the day... just... ends."
Aaron Hotchner (Note: This is the first time that a quote used in the beginning or end of Hotch the episode had one of the main characters as its author.)
SEASON 5 QUOTES Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
5x01 "Nameless, Faceless" (1 quote)
"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards."
Carl Kraus
Rossi
5x02 "Haunted" (2 quotes)
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."
Emily Dickinson
Hotch
"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience Polybius that dwells in the heart of every man."
Hotch
5x03 "Reckoner" (2 quotes)
5x04 "Hopeless" (2 quotes)
5x05 "Cradle to Grave" (1 quote)
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical"
Rossi
"There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Morgan
"These violent delights have violent ends."
William Shakespeare
Morgan
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round Journalist William D. will wave at his parents Tammeus every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back."
"Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you."
5x08 "Outfoxed" (1 quote)
5x09 "100" (2 quotes)
Rossi
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit Abraham Lincoln than strict justice."
5x06 "The Eyes Have "And if thy right eye It" offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee..." (2 quotes)
5x07 "The Performer" (2 quotes)
Blaise Pascal
JJ
Matthew 5:29
Morgan
Guru Nanak
Morgan
"In all the darkest pages in the malign supernatural, there is no Writer Montague more terrible tradition Summers than that of a vampire - a pariah even among demons."
Reid
"Better to write for yourself and have no Writer Cyril Connolly public than to write for the public and have no self."
Prentiss
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to Albert Einstein somebody else unless it's an enemy."
Morgan
"He who fights with Friedrich Nietzsche monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the
Hotch
abyss gazes also into you."
5x10 "The Slave of Duty" (3 quotes)
5x11 "Retaliation" (2 quotes)
5x12 "The Uncanny Valley" (2 quotes)
5x13 "Risky Business" (2 quotes)
"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
Haniel Long
Hotch
"It's love that makes the world go round."
W. S. Gilbert
Hotch
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may Oliver Wendell Holmes leave, but not our hearts."
Hotch
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Hotch
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude Tacitus is a burden and revenge a pleasure."
Prentiss
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are Washington Irving messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love."
Prentiss
"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
Mildred Lisette Norman
Reid
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
Isaac Asimov
Reid
"Life is a game, play it....Life is too precious, do not destroy it."
Mother Teresa
JJ
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My C.S. Lewis God, do you learn." 5x14 "Parasite" (2 quotes)
"If I am what I have, and if German Psychologist I lose what I have, who Erich Fromm
JJ
Rossi
then am I?"
5x15 "Public Enemy" (2 quotes)
5x16 "Mosley Lane" (2 quotes)
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott
Prentiss
"Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rossi
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when William Shakespeare his son gives to his father, both cry."
Rossi
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."
Friedrich Nietzsche
JJ
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
JJ
Tennessee Williams
Prentiss
Christopher Lasch
Morgan
"We're all sentenced to 5x17 "Solitary Man" solitary confinement inside our own skins, for (2 quotes) life." "The family is a haven in a heartless world."
5x18 "The Fight" (1 quote)
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be Mother Teresa no more hurt, only more love."
Hotch
5x19 "Rite of Passage" (2 quotes)
"A lions work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
Chuck Jones
Prentiss
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness...is not attained through selfgratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller
Hotch
5x20 "...A Thousand Words" (2 quotes)
"A sincere artist tries to create something which Painter William Dobell is, in itself, a living thing." "I have seen children Mohandas Gandhi successfully surmount the
Rossi Hotch
effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
5x21 "Exit Wounds" (2 quotes)
5x22 "The Internet Is Forever" (2 quotes)
5x23 "Our Darkest Hour" (1 quote)
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man."
John Morley
Garcia
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is Ralph W. Sockman so gentle as real strength."
Garcia
"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
Hotch
George Bernard Shaw
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't Eric Schmidt understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."
Rossi
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."
Morgan
Alfred Lord Tennyson
SEASON 6 QUOTES
Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these 6x01 "The Longest Night" (1 quote)
minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But The Buddha
JJ
if these minds get out of harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."
6x02 "JJ" (2 quotes)
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the
Jean Racine
JJ
pleasure of tragedy." I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
road. Maybe it's because I look at
(She is quoting her exit JJ
everything as a lesson, or I don't want
interview)
to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go. 6x03 "Remembrance "Remembrance of things past is not of Things Past" necessarily the remembrance of things Marcel Proust (2 quotes) as they were."
Rossi
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot
Mark Twain
Rossi
Abraham Lincoln
Garcia
André Berthiaume
Prentiss
Mahatma Ghandi
Morgan
Robert Frost
Morgan
remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it." 6x04 "Compromising Positions" "Whatever you are, be a good one." (2 quotes) "We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin."
6x05 "Safe Haven" (2 quotes)
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
“But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.”
6x06 "Devil's Night" (2 quotes)
"If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hotch
Thomas A. Kempis
Hotch
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hotch
Bernard Malamud
Hotch
Marilyn Monroe
Garcia
vengeance need not be feared."
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.” "The herds seek out the great, not for 6x07 "Middle Man" (2 quotes)
their seed, but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." "Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." "Fame will go by and, so long, I've had
6x08 "Reflection of Desire" (2 quotes)
you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." "I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us Penelope Garcia
Garcia
fight it. And in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. Some point, we're forced to face the truth...ourselves. 6x09 "Into the Woods" (2 quotes)
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." "Evil endures a moment's flush and then leaves but a burnt up shell."
Ralph Ellison
Morgan
Elise Cabot
Hotch
6x10 "What Happens "When we were children, we used to Madeleine L'Engle at Home" think that when we grew up we would (2 quotes) no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is
Hotch
to be vulnerable." "Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them,
Oscar Wilde
Rossi
Nelson Mandela
Morgan
Galileo Galilei
Morgan
sometimes they forgive them." 6x11 "25 to Life" (2 quotes)
"There is no such thing as part freedom." "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
6x12 "Corazón" (2 quotes)
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Reid
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the
Helen Keller
Reid
Frederich Nietzsche
Prentiss
heart." "What really raises one's indignation 6x13 "The Thirteenth against suffering is not suffering Step" intrinsically, but the senselessness of (2 quotes) suffering." "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what William Glasser
Prentiss
we are today." 6x14 "Sense Memory" (2 quotes)
“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sidesshould know they're in the game.”
Paul Rodriguez
Morgan
Vladimir Nabokov
Prentiss
Sally Kempton
Rossi
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Prentiss
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." 6x15 "Today I Do" (2 quotes)
“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
“There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
6x16 "Coda" (2 quotes)
"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often
James T. McKay
Reid
Honore de Balzac
Ian Doyle
Lao Tzu
Prentiss
Dorothea Dix
Prentiss
Elizabeth Bear
Prentiss
Walter Langer
JJ
Lizette Reese
Reid
Siddharta Buddha
Morgan
Antonio Porchia
Morgan
Stephen King
Hotch
Adrienne Rich
Seaver
Agathon
Rossi
a repetition of today." "Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence."
6x17 "Valhalla" (2 quotes)
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its ownpunishment in silence." "The secret to getting away with lying is
6x18 "Lauren" (2 quotes)
believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another." "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it."
6x19 "With Friends Like These..." (2 quotes)
"The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out." "It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways."
6x20 "Hanley Waters" (1 quote)
"Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists."
6x21 "The Stranger" "Sometimes human places create (2 quotes) inhuman monsters." "Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events." 6x22 "Out of the Light"
"Of this alone, even god is deprived,
(2 quotes)
6x23 "Big Sea" (2 quotes)
the power of making things that are past never to have been." "Bring the past only if you're going to
Doménico Cieri
build from it."
Estrada
Hotch
"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the
Joseph Conrad
Rossi
John F. Kennedy
Morgan
accomplice of human restlessness." "We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."
6x24 "Supply & Demand" (2 quotes)
"And yet to every bad there's a worse." Thomas Hardy "What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do."
Hotch
Aristotle
Rossi
SEASON 7 QUOTES
Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
7x01 "It Takes a Village" (2 quotes)
"The past cannot be cured."
Queen Elizabeth I
JJ
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
Unknown (FBI oath of office)
Prentiss
evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." 7x02 "Proof" (2 quotes)
"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary."
Mark Twain
Reid
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." 7x03"Dorado Falls" (2 quotes)
Scott Adams
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only Franklin Delano prisoners of their own minds."
Roosevelt
Rossi Reid
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for
Orson Welles
Rossi
Andy Partridge
Reid
Khalil Gibran
Hotch
Edgar Allan Poe
Reid
Ernest Hemingway
Rossi
Erich Fromm
Rossi
the moment that we're not alone." 7x04 "Painless" (2 quotes)
"You may leave school, but it never leaves you." "Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
7x05"From Childhood's Hour" (2 quotes)
"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw." "All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
7x06 "Epilogue" (2 quotes)
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." "The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeded it."
Mary Catherine Bateson
Rossi
"For the man sound in body and serene 7x07 "There's No Place Like Home" (2 quotes)
in mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every day has its beauty and
George Gissing
Hotch
Arthur Golden
JJ
George Iles
Garcia
Joseph Campbell
Garcia
Aamnah Akram
Garcia
storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." "Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are." "Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."
7x08 "Hope" (3 quotes)
"Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." "We are each on our own journey. Each of usis on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of
challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be." 7x09 "Self-Fulfilling "Things do not change. We change." Prophecy" (2 quotes) "Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance." 7x10 "The Bittersweet Science" (2 quotes)
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
7x11 "True Genius" (2 quotes)
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
7x12 "Unknown Subject" (2 quotes)
trauma, but we make out of it what
Jean de La Fountaine Morgan
Joe Louis
Hotch
Hermann Hesse
Hotch
Benjamin Franklin.
Morgan
Dante Alighieri Reid
Alfred Adler
Hotch
Henry Ellis
Prentiss
A Chinese Proverb
Hotch
suits our purposes." mingling of letting go and holding on." "At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons." "A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane."
7x14 "Closing Time" (2 quotes)
Morgan
"We do not suffer from the shock of our
"All the art of living lies in a fine
7x13 "Snake Eyes" (2 quotes)
Henry David Thoreau
"For trust not him that hath once broken faith."
George Augustus Sala Rossi William Shakespeare
Hotch
Frank Crane
Hotch
Honore de Balzac
Morgan
Malcolm X
Prentiss
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will leave in torment if you don't trust enough." 7x15 "The Thin LIne" (2 quotes)
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." "I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or
against."
7x16 "A Family Affair" (2 quotes)
"Where there's anger, there is always pain underneath."
Eckhart Tolle
Morgan
"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. J.J.
