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Season 4 Quotes
Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a comprehensive list of the Season 4
Quotes, the episodes they were in, and which character said them.

The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote and may be edited for the
shows purposes.
Episode
Quote
Author
Who Said It
4x01 "Mayhem"
(1 quote)
"Never think that war, no matter how
necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
Hotch
4x02 "The Angel Maker"
(2 quotes)
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the
goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
Hotch
The past is our definition. we may strive, with
good reason, to escape it, or to escape what
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is bad in it, but we will escape
it only

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is bad in it, but we will escape
it only
adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry
Hotch
4x03 "Minimal Loss"
(2 quotes)
"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
Benjamin Franklin
Reid
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it
cannot be conquered by it."
Ayn Rand
Prentiss
4x04 "Paradise"
(2 quotes)
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
Thomas Fuller
Hotch
"Things are not always what they seem; the
first appearance deceives many; the
intelligence of a few perceives what has been
carefully hidden."
Phaedrus
Hotch
4x05 "Catching Out"
(2 quotes)
"Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer."
Zulu proverb
Prentiss
"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the
West the sea, And the East and West the
wander-thirst that will not let me be."
Gerald Gould
Prentiss
4x06 "The Instincts"
(2 quotes)
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the
deepest in mankind and finds the readiest
response."

Amos Bronson Alcott

Hotch
"I think the truly natural things are dreams,
which nature can't touch with decay."
Bob Dylan
Reid
4x07 "Memoriam"
(2 quotes)
What was silent in the father speaks in the
son, and often I found in the son the unveiled
secret of the father.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reid
There is no refuge from memory and
remorse in this world. The spirits of our
foolish deeds haunt us, with or without
repentance.
Gilbert Parker
Reid
4x08 "Masterpiece"
(2 quotes)
"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will
explain us to each other; it will unriddle many
riddles..."
Mark Twain
Rossi
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a
method which rejects revenge, aggression
and retaliation. The foundation of such a
method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rossi
4x09 "52 Pickup"
(2 quotes)
"The minute people fall in love, they become
liars."
Harlan Ellison
Prentiss

"Cleanliness becomes more important when

godliness is unlikely."
P.J. O'Rourke
Rossi
4x10 "Brothers in Arms"
(2 quotes)
"We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for
one, would be willing to skin humanity to
prove it."
Ayn Rand
Morgan
"...for he today who sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother."
William Shakespeare
Morgan
4x11 "Normal"
(2 quotes)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin to slit throats."
H.L. Mencken
Hotch
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a
child. Things never get back to the way they
were."
President Dwight Eisenhower
Rossi
4x12 "Soul Mates "
(2 quotes)
"No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are
silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal
oozes out of him at every pore."
Sigmund Freud
Reid
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson
Morgan
4x13 "Bloodline"

4x13 "Bloodline"
(2 quotes)
"There is no doubt that it is around the family
and the home that all the greatest virtues, the
most dominating virtues of human society,
are created, strengthened and maintained."
Winston Churchill
Prentiss
"The strength of a family, like the strength of
an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
Mario Puzo
Hotch
4x14 "Cold Comfort"
(2 quotes)
"And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the
side. Of my darling, my darling, my life and
my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In
her tomb by the sounding sea."
Edgar Allan Poe (this is from his poem,
"Annabel
Lee").
JJ
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary.
For those who don't believe, no proof is
possible."
Stuart Chase
Rossi
4x15 "Zoe's Reprise"
(2 quotes)
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to
provide the conditions in which they can
learn."
Albert Einstein
Rossi
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Austrian novelist, Marie von EbnerEschenbach
Rossi
4x16 "Pleasure is my Business"
(1 quote)
"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the

"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."
Camille Paglia
Hotch
4x17 "Demonology"
(2 quote)
"He who does not punish evil, commands it to
be done."
Leonardo Da Vinci
Prentiss
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is
so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
Rossi
4x18 "Omnivore"
(2 quotes)
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one
calamity.
Roman author Publilius Syrus
Hotch
Men heap together the mistakes of their
lives, and create a monster they call destiny.
John Hobbes
Hotch
4x19 "House On Fire "
(2 quotes)
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire
department to call; no way out."
Tennessee Williams
Hotch
"I have loved to the point of madness; That
which is called madness, That which to me, is
the only sensible way to love."
Francoise Sagan
Hotch
4x20 "Conflicted"
(2 quotes)

(2 quotes)
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything
but it is wrong. No matter how fast light
travels, it finds the darkness has always got
there first, and is waiting for it."
Terry Pratchett
Reid
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.
They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
Stephen King
Reid
4x21 " A Shade of Gray"
(2 quotes)
"To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself."
Dr. Burton Grebin
Rossi
"Without a family, man, alone in the world,
trembles with the cold."
Andre Maurois
Rossi
4x22 "The Big Wheel"
(2 quotes)
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the
darkness must be present."
Francis Bacon
Hotch
"No matter how dark the moment, love and
hope are always possible."
George Chakiris
Morgan
4x23 "Roadkill"
(2 quotes)
I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their
speed forward they may be a step backward
in civilization.
Booth Tarkington
Hotch
The human voice can never reach the

The human voice can never reach the

distance that is covered by the still small
voice of conscience.
Mahatma Ghandi
JJ
4x24 "Amplification"
(2 quotes)
"It will become fine dust over all the land of
Egypt and it will become boils breaking out
with sores on man and beast through all the
land of Egypt."
Exodus 9:9
Reid
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not
exist in nature, nor do the children of men as
a whole experience it."
Helen Keller
Reid
4x25/26 "To Hell...And Back"
(2 quotes)
"If there were no hell, we would be like the
animals. No hell, no dignity."
Flannery O'Connor
Hotch
"Sometimes there are no words. No clever
quotes to neatly sum up what's happened
that day... sometimes the day... just... ends."
Aaron Hotchner (Note: This is the first time
that a quote used in the beginning or end of
the episode had one of the main characters
as its author.)
Hotch

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