Criminal Minds · Season 5 · 41 quotations
Criminal Minds Season 5 Quotes
Every quotation read at the start or end of a Criminal Minds Season 5 episode (2009–2010), in episode order, with its author and the character who reads it.
Seasons
- Episode 1 · Aired September 23, 2009
Nameless, Faceless
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
- Episode 2 · Aired September 30, 2009
Haunted
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material places.”
“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”
- Episode 3 · Aired October 7, 2009
Reckoner
“Justice without force is powerless. Force without justice is tyrannical.”
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.”
- Episode 4 · Aired October 14, 2009
Hopeless
“There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
- Episode 5 · Aired October 21, 2009
Cradle to Grave
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.”
- Episode 6 · Aired November 4, 2009
The Eyes Have It
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.”
“Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you.”
- Episode 7 · Aired November 11, 2009
The Performer
“In the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons.”
“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
- Episode 8 · Aired November 18, 2009
Outfoxed
“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it’s an enemy.”
- Episode 9 · Aired November 25, 2009
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.”
“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.”
- Episode 10 · Aired December 9, 2009
The Slave of Duty
“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Episode 11 · Aired December 16, 2009
Retaliation
“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.”
- Episode 12 · Aired January 13, 2010
The Uncanny Valley
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
- Episode 13 · Aired January 20, 2010
Risky Business
“Life is a game. Play it. Life is too precious. Do not destroy it.”
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
- Episode 14 · Aired February 3, 2010
Parasite
“If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
- Episode 15 · Aired February 10, 2010
Public Enemy
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
“When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, both cry.”
- Episode 16 · Aired March 3, 2010
Mosley Lane
“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
- Episode 17 · Aired March 10, 2010
Solitary Man
“We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“Family is a haven in a heartless world.”
- Episode 18 · Aired April 7, 2010
The Fight
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
- Episode 19 · Aired April 14, 2010
Rite of Passage
“A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”
“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.”
- Episode 20 · Aired May 5, 2010
…A Thousand Words
“A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
“I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
- Episode 21 · Aired May 12, 2010
Exit Wounds
“Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.”
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
- Episode 22 · Aired May 19, 2010
The Internet Is Forever
“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
- Episode 23 · Aired May 26, 2010
Our Darkest Hour
“And out of the darkness came the hands that reached through nature, molding men.”