Criminal Minds Quotes

“Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.

[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]”
― Huseyn Raza

“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.”
― Émile Zola

“Life is a hell of a thing to happen to someone”
― David Rossi

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology.”
― Spencer Reid

“Logic dictates that if you believe in one, you have to reconcile the existence of the other.”
― Spencer Reid

“Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“He was ready to go but I wasn’t ready to say goodbye.”
― Alex Blake

“Life is a hell of a thing
to happen to a person.”
― David Rossi

“It takes two to bribe.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“To the sexual offender, possession is power, and total possession is absolute power.”
― Stephen G. Michaud, The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators

“Serial murders are a bit like natural disasters: in the scheme of things they are quite rare, but when they happen they demand our attention. They interest us for several reasons, but especially because they are so dramatically threatening, and they profoundly challenge our sense of our own everyday safety.

[Todd R. Clear, Foreword]”
― Eric W. Hickey, Serial Murderers and their Victims

“It wasn’t fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn’t have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.”
― Miles Watson, Pleas and Thank Yous

“As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

“This was the move that was supposed to sweep me away. She seemed a little out of practice. I guess life with Charley Royce hadn’t exactly been the third reel of The English Patient. It had to be bad if Mickey Dolan was your back-up. Not to put Mickey down but he didn’t strike me as the lover-boy type. Especially when he took out his teeth. The last time Mickey thought about pleasing anybody but himself was just before he discovered how to sniff glue.”
― Dan Ahearn, Shoot the Moon

“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Miles Watson, Cage Life

“Surprised huh, thought you had me back in prison didn’t you? To answer your question what keeps me alive is my drive, my drive to kill you! I have nothing, but hate for you and your family. It will be my pleasure taking you out. I don’t care about power, plutonium or even being rich. None of that matters to me. I only care about taking you out. Even if I die I want to be the one who is called the killer of Angel Medina! There’s no where for you to go. Now we will truly see who is better! Come on put up you hands and prepare for your final battle of your life! - Orlando from Framed: The Second Book of the Thousand Years War”
― Angel Ramon Medina, Framed

“Trust me, kiddo. I've been here before.”
― David Rossi

“No killer is born a criminal. Sometimes, society’s contempt, hatred, and rancour can transform an innocent victim into a malevolent demon.”
― Sohil Makwana, The Probe Begins

“A criminal always returns home.”
― Ljupka Cvetanovaetanova

“A criminal always returns home.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova

“I’ve always heard every ending is also a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time. I’d like to believe that’s true.”
― Emily Prentiss

“Truman Capote : What is your own sense of morality? How do you differentiate between good and bad?

Robert Beausoleil (a close associate of Charles Manson) : Good and bad? It’s all good. If it happens, it’s got to be good. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be happening. It’s just the way life flows. Moves together. I move with it. I don’t question it.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“Try again, fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!”
― Deyth Banger

“He could have killed me for the blunder— which really wasn’t my fault— but I was lucky , and he gave me another chance. The two officers who questioned him were also incredibly lucky for not having had any idea who it was they’d been questioning.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

“The prime marks of the murderer are a sense of helplessness, impotence, and nagging revenge carried over from early childhood. Intertwined with this core of emotions which color and distort his view of life and all his actions are his irrational hatred for others, his suspiciousness, and his hypersensitivity to injustices or rejection. Hand in hand with these go his self-centeredness and his inability to withstand frustration. Overpowered by frequent uncontrollable emotional outbursts, he has a need to retaliate, to destroy, to tear down by killing.”
― David Abrahamsen, The murdering mind

“Se quedó desconcertado cuando el golpe seco hizo que ella se desplomara. ¿Tan fácil era matar a alguien? ¿Tan poco hacía falta para quitar la vida a alguien? Pensaba que aquel momento no sería tan fugaz, tan efímero, y se sintió culpable por descubrirse decepcionado.”
― Josh T. Baker, La vida secreta de Sarah Brooks

“the average American was as gullible as a wide-mouthed shad”
― Pope Brock, Charlatan

“The more I research the police, the more it reinforces my beliefs that they are shady and potentially dangerous!”
― Steven Magee

“The road to the unthinkable is not paved by slight departures from your heart, but by tentative forays into it.”
― Steven James, The Bishop