Criminal Minds Opening and Closing Quotes

Most Criminal Minds episodes open and close with a quotation read by a member of the BAU. Every one is here, word for word, sorted by author, by the character who reads it and season by season, with the episode it belongs to.

By author

• Friedrich Nietzsche6 quotes
• William Shakespeare6 quotes
• Albert Einstein5 quotes
• Mahatma Gandhi5 quotes
• Euripides3 quotes
• George Bernard Shaw3 quotes
• Helen Keller3 quotes

Authors quoted once or twice appear on the season pages below.

By reader

• Hotch56 quotes
• Gideon47 quotes
• Rossi23 quotes
• Reid20 quotes
• Prentiss18 quotes
• Morgan14 quotes
• JJ13 quotes
• Garcia4 quotes

By season

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• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Each season page lists every quotation in order, with the episode it opens or closes. How these pages are written.