Criminal Minds · Season 2 · 36 quotations
Criminal Minds Season 2 Quotes
Every quotation read at the start or end of a Criminal Minds Season 2 episode (2006–2007), in episode order, with its author and the character who reads it.
Seasons
- Episode 1 · Aired September 20, 2006
The Fisher King: Part 2
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still 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 them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
- Episode 2 · Aired September 27, 2006
P911
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
- Episode 3 · Aired October 4, 2006
The Perfect Storm
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
- Episode 4 · Aired October 11, 2006
Psychodrama
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.”
“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”
- Episode 5 · Aired October 18, 2006
Aftermath
“Although the world is full of suffering, but it is also full of overcoming it.”
- Episode 6 · Aired October 25, 2006
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.”
- Episode 7 · Aired November 1, 2006
North Mammon
“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, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.”
- Episode 8 · Aired November 8, 2006
Empty Planet
“Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.”
- Episode 9 · Aired November 15, 2006
The Last Word
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“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.”
- Episode 10 · Aired November 22, 2006
Lessons Learned
“Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
“In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.”
- Episode 11 · Aired November 29, 2006
Sex, Birth, Death
“Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the 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.”
- Episode 12 · Aired December 13, 2006
Profiler, Profiled
“All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.”
- Episode 13 · Aired January 17, 2007
No Way Out
“Evil brings men together.”
- Episode 14 · Aired February 4, 2007
The Big Game
“I didn’t have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they’re just the ones who have to pay for it.”
- Episode 15 · Aired February 7, 2007
Revelations
“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.”
- Episode 16 · Aired February 14, 2007
Fear and Loathing
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
- Episode 17 · Aired February 21, 2007
Distress
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
- Episode 18 · Aired February 28, 2007
Jones
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
- Episode 19 · Aired March 21, 2007
Ashes and Dust
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Episode 20 · Aired April 11, 2007
Honor Among Thieves
“There can be no good without evil.”
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
- Episode 21 · Aired May 2, 2007
Open Season
“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 death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
- Episode 22 · Aired May 9, 2007
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.”
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
- Episode 23 · Aired May 16, 2007
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects.”