Criminal Minds · Season 3 · 32 quotations
Criminal Minds Season 3 Quotes
Every quotation read at the start or end of a Criminal Minds Season 3 episode (2007–2008), in episode order, with its author and the character who reads it.
Seasons
- Episode 2 · Aired October 3, 2007
In Name and Blood
“Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.”
- Episode 3 · Aired October 10, 2007
Scared to Death
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
“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.”
- Episode 4 · Aired October 17, 2007
Children of the Dark
“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 soul.”
- Episode 5 · Aired October 24, 2007
Seven Seconds
“Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing 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.”
- Episode 6 · Aired October 31, 2007
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?”
- Episode 7 · Aired November 7, 2007
Identity
“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
- Episode 8 · Aired November 14, 2007
Lucky
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters.”
“God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.”
- Episode 9 · Aired November 21, 2007
Penelope
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
- Episode 10 · Aired November 28, 2007
True Night
“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the 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.”
- Episode 11 · Aired December 12, 2007
Birthright
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
“A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?”
- Episode 12 · Aired January 9, 2008
3rd Life
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
“It is a wise father who knows his own child.”
- Episode 13 · Aired January 23, 2008
Limelight
“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and, although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.”
- Episode 14 · Aired April 2, 2008
Damaged
“Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
“There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
- Episode 15 · Aired April 9, 2008
A Higher Power
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.”
- Episode 16 · Aired April 16, 2008
Elephant's Memory
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except the memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
- Episode 17 · Aired April 30, 2008
In Heat
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
“If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.”
- Episode 18 · Aired May 7, 2008
The Crossing
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
“A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
- Episode 19 · Aired May 14, 2008
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.”
“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 strength in what remains behind.”
- Episode 20 · Aired May 21, 2008
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.”