Collection of Quotes from Criminal Minds

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'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.' Samuel Beckett

‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” Churchill

Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."

The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, "Evil is always unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table."

Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Abraham Lincoln once said "In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.

Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but… that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” Milan Kundera.

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

Platon said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

Elbert Hubbard once wrote, “If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seemed invincible. But in the end they always fall. Always.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear.”

T.S. Eliot wrote, “Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, falls the shadow. Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, Falls the Shadow.
This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper."
~ T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

“All secrets are deep, all secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.” Writer, Cory Doctorow.

“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.” Ecclesiastes 7:20.

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.” Socrates.

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” Cicero.

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” Thomas Paine.

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects.” Oscar Wilde .

The Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote, “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.” Euripides.

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” Ben Okri.

“We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” Tom Stoppard

Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” Anatole France.

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Ernest Hemingway

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk

Wendell Berry said, “The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”

“To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” Benjamin Franklin

Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, “Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”

“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles.” Mark Twain

“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

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase

“…and so all the night tide, I lie down by the side, of my darling my darling, my life, my bride. In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

“A 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

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.” John Hobbes

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it.” Terry Pratchett

Stephen King wrote, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win.”

Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to sum up what’s happened that day. Sometimes, the day just… ends.

“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”, Polybius

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical”, Blaise Pascal.

“There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”, Kingman Brewster Jr

“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.”, Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”, Oliver Wendell Holmes.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.”, Tacitus.

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.” Washington Irving

nything 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.”, Mildred Lisette Norman.

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”, Isaac Asimov.

“If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I ?”, German Psychologist Erich Fromm.

“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”, Emily Dickinson.

“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”, Friedrich Nietzsche.

“A lions work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”, Chuck Jones.

“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness…is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”, Helen Keller.

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”, George Bernard Shaw.

“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.”, Eric Schmidt.

But I am a mother. And I, I know what your mother did to you when you were little. What she was... What-- What she made you watch, what she let men do to you and it makes me so... ...it's just... not fair. And -- and no one, no one can make that better. I wish I could. I do. But if I could somehow go back there and make what was happening to you stop, I could just pick you up, and tell you that all would be okay. That's what moms are supposed to do...They are not supposed to be the cause of your pain; they are supposed to make it go away. They are supposed to hold you and tell you that everything is going to be alright. They are supposed to tell you that thunder is angel's bowling, and that it is okay to be afraid of the dark and that it is not silly to think that there are be monsters in your closet and that it is ok that if you want to climb into bed with them just this once, because it is scary in the room all alone.They are supposed to say that it is okay to be afraid, and not be the thing that you are afraid of. But most importantly, they are supposed to love you no matter what. What happened to you isn't fair, it is not right. But... I am supposed to empathize with you, sympathize, understand. But I can't. That would be a lie. The truth is... I don't understand what you've done. I don't sympathize with you killing people all these years and I especially don't understand you taking Ellie. What I can do, is to tell you what a mother should tell you. That you cant take away your pain by hurting someone else. That it doesn't make all the nights you have been scared and alone any better if you scare someone else the way you are scaring Ellie. What happened to you, it isn't fair, but what you are doing to her isn't fair either. And if anyone should understand what that feels like, it's you. You have the power. You can do what you want to do. But for once, you could choose to use that power to do for Ellie what should have been done for you. You can choose letting her go. You can choose teaching her that yes, there are monsters, and it is okay to be afraid of them, but it is not okay to let them win, and it is not okay to be one.

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha

Jean Racine said, "A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

I'm thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes: this isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson or because I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept; things we don't want to know but have to learn; and people we can't live without but have to let go.

Marcel Proust said, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

Mark Twain said, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

Abraham Lincoln said, "Whatever you are, be a good one."

"We all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume

"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi

Thomas Kempis wrote, "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility; for it thinks all things are lawful for itself, and all things are possible."

"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud

I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us choose embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. But in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves. For me, that day has come.

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe

Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable." writer Madeleine L'Engle

"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." writer Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." Mary Wollstonecraft

"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, but just felt by the heart." Helen Keller

William Glasser said, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Writer Vladimir Nabokov

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." -Author James T. McKay

Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am I become what I might be."

Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence."

"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart; that goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another." -author Elizabeth Bear

Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events." – Adrienne Rich

Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, "Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." -Aristotle