Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by Hotch 56 quotations in Criminal Minds
Hotch (Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner, played by Thomas Gibson) reads the opening or closing quotation 56 times across 41 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “L.D.S.K.” (2005) to “The Internet Is Forever” (2010).
- Season 1 · Episode 6 · Closing quote
L.D.S.K.
“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”
- Season 1 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
The Tribe
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
- Season 1 · Episode 16 · Closing quote
The Tribe
“You can take many paths to get to the same place.”
- Season 1 · Episode 17 · Closing quote
A Real Rain
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
- Season 1 · Episode 19 · Opening quote
Machismo
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
- Season 1 · Episode 19 · Closing quote
Machismo
“The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.”
- Season 2 · Episode 3 · Closing quote
The Perfect Storm
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
- Season 2 · Episode 4 · Opening quote
Psychodrama
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.”
- Season 2 · Episode 4 · Closing quote
Psychodrama
“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”
- Season 2 · Episode 6 · Opening quote
The Boogeyman
“We can easily forgive a child who’s afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
- Season 2 · Episode 9 · Closing quote
The Last Word
“Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
- Season 2 · Episode 15 · Opening quote
Revelations
“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.”
- Season 2 · Episode 17 · Closing quote
Distress
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
- Season 2 · Episode 19 · Opening quote
Ashes and Dust
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
- Season 2 · Episode 19 · Closing quote
Ashes and Dust
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Season 2 · Episode 22 · Opening quote
Legacy
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”
- Season 2 · Episode 22 · Closing quote
Legacy
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
- Season 3 · Episode 2 · Opening quote
In Name and Blood
“Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.”
- Season 3 · Episode 3 · Opening quote
Scared to Death
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
- Season 3 · Episode 3 · Closing quote
Scared to Death
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
- Season 3 · Episode 5 · Opening quote
Seven Seconds
“Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”
- Season 3 · Episode 5 · Closing quote
Seven Seconds
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
- Season 3 · Episode 6 · Opening quote
About Face
“What else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?”
- Season 3 · Episode 11 · Opening quote
Birthright
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
- Season 3 · Episode 12 · Opening quote
3rd Life
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
- Season 3 · Episode 12 · Closing quote
3rd Life
“It is a wise father who knows his own child.”
- Season 3 · Episode 14 · Closing quote
Damaged
“There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
- Season 3 · Episode 19 · Opening quote
Tabula Rasa
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
- Season 3 · Episode 20 · Opening quote
Lo-Fi
“The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”
- Season 4 · Episode 1 · Opening quote
Mayhem
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
- Season 4 · Episode 2 · Opening quote
The Angel Maker
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.”
- Season 4 · Episode 2 · Closing quote
The Angel Maker
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
- Season 4 · Episode 4 · Opening quote
Paradise
“A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.”
- Season 4 · Episode 4 · Closing quote
Paradise
“Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”
- Season 4 · Episode 6 · Opening quote
The Instincts
“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
- Season 4 · Episode 11 · Opening quote
Normal
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats.”
- Season 4 · Episode 13 · Closing quote
Bloodline
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
- Season 4 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
Pleasure Is My Business
“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.”
- Season 4 · Episode 18 · Opening quote
Omnivore
“Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
- Season 4 · Episode 18 · Closing quote
Omnivore
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.”
- Season 4 · Episode 19 · Opening quote
House on Fire
“We all live in a house on fire. No fire department to call, no way out.”
- Season 4 · Episode 19 · Closing quote
House on Fire
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
- Season 4 · Episode 22 · Opening quote
The Big Wheel
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
- Season 4 · Episode 23 · Opening quote
Roadkill
“I’m not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.”
- Season 4 · Episode 25 · Opening quote
To Hell…
“If there were no Hell, we would be like the animals. No Hell, no dignity.”
- Season 4 · Episode 26 · Closing quote
…and Back
“Like I said, sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what’s happened that day. Sometimes the day just ends.”
- Season 5 · Episode 2 · Opening quote
Haunted
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material places.”
- Season 5 · Episode 2 · Closing quote
Haunted
“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”
- Season 5 · Episode 9 · Opening quote
100
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- Season 5 · Episode 9 · Closing quote
100
“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.”
- Season 5 · Episode 10 · Opening quote
The Slave of Duty
“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.”
- Season 5 · Episode 10 · Closing quote
The Slave of Duty
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Season 5 · Episode 18 · Opening quote
The Fight
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
- Season 5 · Episode 19 · Closing quote
Rite of Passage
“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
- Season 5 · Episode 20 · Closing quote
…A Thousand Words
“I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
- Season 5 · Episode 22 · Opening quote
The Internet Is Forever
“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”