Criminal Minds, the long-running CBS drama about the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), has been one of the network’s most successful shows since it premiered in 2005.
It has garnered numerous awards, including three People’s Choice Awards and several Golden Globe nominations, and has produced at least one popular catchphrase: I like to watch.
The show follows an elite team of FBI profilers who use their insights into the minds of serial killers to help local police departments solve seemingly unsolvable cases and are responsible for catching some of the most terrifying criminals in the United States — and sometimes, they even become those criminals themselves!
Criminal Minds is known for many things — its compelling storylines, its special effects, and of course, the quotes from this Criminal Minds series that have stayed with viewers over the years.
We always have the best quotes from Morgan, Hotch, Garcia, and Reid to look back on.
Here are some of our favorite and best criminal minds quotes from seasons 1-15 that made us laugh out loud or really think about our lives in a different way.
Best Quotes from Criminal Minds
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ―Winston Churchill
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ―Joseph Conrad
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. ―W.H. Auden
We all have a monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. ―Douglas Preston
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ―Anthony Brand
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to struggle against entropy. ―Vaclav Havel
You see what power is — holding someone else’s fear in our hand and showing it to them. ―Amy Tan
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. —Maya Angelou
The darkness always lies. ―Anthony Liccione
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets. ―Cory Doctorow
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them. ―Rose Kennedy
The clock talked loud. I threw it away. It scared me when it talked. ―Tillie Olsen
Quotes on Trying
Try again, fail again. Fail better. ―Samuel Beckett
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ―Tony Robbins
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. ―Ferdinand Magellan
Revenge is an act of passion, vengeance of justice. ―Samuel Johnson
To a father, nothing is dearer than a daughter. ―Euripides
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. ―James E. Faust
A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life. ―Oscar Wilde
Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed…and eats at our table. ―W.H. Auden
There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. ―Voltaire
Motivational Quotes about Work
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ―Aristotle
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ―Theodore Roosevelt
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country. ―Bernard Shaw
All sins tend to be addictive. And the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ―W.H. Auden
Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night. ―J.M. Barrie
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn. And where we end up is really in fact where we always intended to be. ―Julia Glass
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ―Iris Murdoch
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ―Confucius
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. ―Nicole Sobon
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them. ―Oscar Wilde
What is food to one is to others bitter poison. ―Lucretius
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch without doing anything. ―Albert Einstein
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that they will somehow connect in your future. ―Steve Jobs
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ―Wayne Dyer
Quotes on Forgiveness
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ― Paul Boese
When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. ―Emile Zola
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. —Honoré de Balzac
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future. ―George Bernard Shaw
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ―Albert Einstein
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we’re in control of our own existence. In some ways, we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. ―Paul Auster
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. ―Adrienne Rich
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ―Coco Chanel
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. ―Euripides
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ―Elbert Hubbard
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ―Albert Pine
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. —Angelus Silesius
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin. ―Andre Berthiaume
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ―John Steinbeck
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ―Soren Kirkegaard
Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is the man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ―Buddha
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. ―Don Miguel Ruiz
Quotes on Courages
Courage is grace under pressure. ―Ernest Hemingway
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ―Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. ―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ―Robert Louis Stevenson
In order to learn the most important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. —Richard Bach
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. ―Clive Barker
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ―Abrahanm Lincoln
We are all sharks, circling, and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water. ―Allan Clark
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. ―Norman Maclean
Your memory is a monster. It summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you. ―John Irving
Quotes by Graham Brown
Life is about choices. Some we regret. Some we’re proud of. We are what we choose to be. ―Graham Brown
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. ―Fredrich Nietzche
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ―Harriet Beecher Stowe
Better to be violent if there’s violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. ―Gandhi
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking. ―Albert Einstein
The enemies are within the gates. It is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ―Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future but to shape it. To channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. ―Alvin Toffler
Quote by James Russell Lowell
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new and near the end, the milestones into headstones change, ‘neath every one a friend. ―James Russell Lowell
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ―Oscar Wilde
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ―Edgar Allan Poe
Best Criminal Minds Quotes You’d Love to Tweet
Logic dictates that if you believe in one, you have to reconcile the existence of the other. ―Criminal Minds Click To TweetIt’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it. ―John Wooden Click To TweetMonsters are real. Ghosts are real, too. They live inside us and sometimes, they win. ―Stephen King Click To TweetEvery journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. ―Adrienne Rich Click To TweetHe was ready to go, but I wasn’t ready to say goodbye. ―Alex Blake Click To TweetThe most important things are the hardest to say. ―Stephen King Click To TweetWhen truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. ―Emile Zola Click To TweetBest Criminal Minds Quotes with Images
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FAQs
What is Criminal Minds about?
Criminal Minds is a police procedural drama that follows a team of FBI profilers who use behavioral analysis to track and catch criminals. The show first aired in 2005 and ended in 2020, after 15 seasons. Throughout its run, Criminal Minds garnered critical acclaim and became one of the most popular shows on television.
How does the show depict mental illness and criminal profiling?
The show Criminal Minds is unique in its accurate portrayal of mental illness and criminal profiling. The show does an excellent job of depicting how mental illness can affect anyone, regardless of their occupation or social status. The show also highlights the importance of understanding mental illness in order to properly profile criminals. The following quotes from the show illustrate these points perfectly.
What makes Criminal Minds such a great show?
The characters, for one. They’re all so richly drawn and complex, it’s impossible not to get sucked in. But what really keeps you coming back are the quotes. Every episode is loaded with memorable lines that stick with you long after the credits have rolled.
What are some of the best quotes from Criminal Minds?
My favorite quotes are:
* I’m not a profiler, I’m a hunter. ―Derek Morgan
* If you want to catch a predator, you have to think like one. ―Jennifer Jareau
* There’s always another serial killer. ―Aaron Hotchner
* We catch the bad guys so that people can sleep at night. ―Spencer Reid
* You can’t save everyone. ―Penelope Garcia
Conclusion
The series may have ended, but the impact it’s had on viewers will last forever.
These Criminal Minds quote capture the show’s essence and provide a lasting reminder of its brilliance.
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