Criminal Minds · Season 1 · 40 quotations
Criminal Minds Season 1 Quotes
Every quotation read at the start or end of a Criminal Minds Season 1 episode (2005–2006), in episode order, with its author and the character who reads it.
Seasons
- Episode 1 · Aired September 22, 2005
Extreme Aggressor
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.”
- Episode 2 · Aired September 28, 2005
Compulsion
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
- Episode 3 · Aired October 5, 2005
Won't Get Fooled Again
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
- Episode 4 · Aired October 12, 2005
Plain Sight
“Don’t forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited 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 sunlight remains to them?”
- Episode 5 · Aired October 19, 2005
Broken Mirror
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.”
- Episode 6 · Aired November 2, 2005
L.D.S.K.
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it.”
“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”
- Episode 7 · Aired November 9, 2005
The Fox
“With foxes, we must play the fox.”
- Episode 8 · Aired November 16, 2005
Natural Born Killer
“There is no hunting like the hunting of 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 the tortured who turn into torturers.”
- Episode 9 · Aired November 23, 2005
Derailed
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”
“The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?”
- Episode 10 · Aired November 30, 2005
The Popular Kids
“Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
- Episode 11 · Aired December 14, 2005
Blood Hungry
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
- Episode 12 · Aired January 11, 2006
What Fresh Hell?
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table.”
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.”
- Episode 13 · Aired January 18, 2006
Poison
“What is food to one is to others bitter poison.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
- Episode 14 · Aired January 25, 2006
Riding the Lightning
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
- Episode 15 · Aired March 1, 2006
Unfinished Business
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
- Episode 16 · Aired March 8, 2006
The Tribe
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
“You can take many paths to get to the same place.”
- Episode 17 · Aired March 22, 2006
A Real Rain
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
- Episode 18 · Aired March 29, 2006
Somebody's Watching
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.”
- Episode 19 · Aired April 12, 2006
Machismo
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
“The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.”
- Episode 20 · Aired April 19, 2006
Charm and Harm
“There are some that 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 disguised to ourselves.”
- Episode 21 · Aired May 3, 2006
Secrets and Lies
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- Episode 22 · Aired May 10, 2006
The Fisher King: Part 1
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”