Criminal Minds · Season 4 · 48 quotations
Criminal Minds Season 4 Quotes
Every quotation read at the start or end of a Criminal Minds Season 4 episode (2008–2009), in episode order, with its author and the character who reads it.
Seasons
- Episode 1 · Aired September 24, 2008
Mayhem
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
- Episode 2 · Aired October 1, 2008
The Angel Maker
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.”
“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.”
- Episode 3 · Aired October 8, 2008
Minimal Loss
“To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.”
- Episode 4 · Aired October 22, 2008
Paradise
“A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.”
“Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”
- Episode 5 · Aired October 29, 2008
Catching Out
“Plenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer.”
“Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, and the East and West, the wander-thirst that will not let me be.”
- Episode 6 · Aired November 5, 2008
The Instincts
“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”
- Episode 7 · Aired November 12, 2008
Memoriam
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.”
- Episode 8 · Aired November 19, 2008
Masterpiece
“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles.”
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
- Episode 9 · Aired November 26, 2008
52 Pickup
“The minute people fall in love, they become liars.”
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”
- Episode 10 · Aired December 10, 2008
Brothers in Arms
“We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
“For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”
- Episode 11 · Aired December 17, 2008
Normal
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats.”
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
- Episode 12 · Aired January 14, 2009
Soul Mates
“No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
- Episode 13 · Aired January 21, 2009
Bloodline
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained.”
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
- Episode 14 · Aired February 11, 2009
Cold Comfort
“And so, all the night tide, I lay down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea.”
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”
- Episode 15 · Aired February 18, 2009
Zoe's Reprise
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
- Episode 16 · Aired February 25, 2009
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.”
- Episode 17 · Aired March 11, 2009
Demonology
“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
“There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
- Episode 18 · Aired March 18, 2009
Omnivore
“Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.”
- Episode 19 · Aired March 25, 2009
House on Fire
“We all live in a house on fire. No fire department to call, no way out.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
- Episode 20 · Aired April 8, 2009
Conflicted
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win.”
- Episode 21 · Aired April 22, 2009
A Shade of Gray
“To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.”
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
- Episode 22 · Aired April 29, 2009
The Big Wheel
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”
- Episode 23 · Aired May 6, 2009
Roadkill
“I’m not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.”
“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.”
- Episode 24 · Aired May 13, 2009
Amplification
“It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.”
- Episode 25 · Aired May 20, 2009
To Hell…
“If there were no Hell, we would be like the animals. No Hell, no dignity.”
- Episode 26 · Aired May 20, 2009
…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.”