Criminal Minds Season 7 Quotes

Episode 01 - It Takes a Village
"The past cannot be cured." Queen Elizabeth I

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." Unknown (FBI oath of office)

Episode 02 - Proof
"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary." Mark Twain

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." Scott Adams

Episode 03 - Dorado Falls
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles

Episode 04 - Painless
"You may leave school, but it never leaves you." Andy Partridge

"Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Khalil Gibran

Episode 05 - From Childhood's Hour
"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw." Edgar Allan Poe

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence." Ernest Hemingway

Episode 06 - Epilogue
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." Erich Fromm

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeded it." Mary Catherine Bateson

Episode 07 - There's No Place Like Home
"For the man sound in body and serene in mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every day has its beauty and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." George Gissing

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are." Arthur Golden

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."George Iles

Episode 08 - Hope
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." Joseph Campbell

"We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be." Aamnah Akram

Episode 09 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
"Things do not change. We change." Henry David Thoreau

"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance." Jean de La Fontaine

Episode 10 - The Bittersweet Science
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." Joe Louis

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." Hermann Hesse

Episode 11 - True Genius
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Benjamin Franklin

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." Dante Alighieri

Episode 12 - Unknown Subject
"We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it what suits our purposes." Alfred Adler

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Henry Ellis

Episode 13 - Snake Eyes
"At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons." Chinese Proverb

"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane." George Augustus Sala

Episode 14 - Closing Time
"For trust not him that hath once broken faith." William Shakespeare

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will leave in torment if you don't trust enough." Frank Crane

Episode 15 - The Thin Line
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." Honore de Balzac

"I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against." Malcolm X

Episode 16 - A Family Affair
"Where there's anger, there is always pain underneath." Eckhart Tolle

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Episode 17 - I Love You Tommy Brown
"It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to." Unknown

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." Bo Bennett

Episode 18 - Foundation
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin." Barbara Kingsolver

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." Michel de Montaigne