Season 3 Quotes

Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a
comprehensive list of the Season 3 Quotes, the episodes they were in, and which character
said them.

The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited
for the shows purposes.

Episode Quote Author Who said it

3x02, "In Name and "Let your heart feel for the
Blood" afflictions and distress of George Washington Hotch
(1 quote) everyone."
"He who controls others
3x03, "Scared to Death" may be powerful but he
Philosopher Lao Tzu Hotch
(2 quotes) who has mastered himself
is mightier still."
"You gain strength,
courage, and confidence
by every experience in
which you really stop to Eleanor Roosevelt Hotch
look fear in the face. You
must do the thing which
you think you cannot do."
"In the city, crime is taken
as emblematic of class and
3x04, "Children of the race. In the suburbs
Dark" though it's intimate and Barbara Ehrenreich Prentiss
(1 quote) psychological; resistant to
generalization; a mystery
of the individual's soul."
"Nothing is easier than to
3x05, "Seven Seconds" denounce the evil doer;
Fyodor Dostoevsky Hotch
(2 quotes) Nothing more difficult
than understanding him."
"Fairy tales do not tell
children that dragons
exist. Children already
know that dragons exist. G.K. Chesterton Hotch
Fairy tales tell children
that dragons can be
killed."
"Now what else is the
whole life of mortals, but
a sort of comedy in which
the various actors,
3x06, "About Face" (1
disguised by various Erasmus Hotch
quote)
costumes and masks, walk
on and play each ones part
until the manager walks
them off the stage?"
3x07 "Identity" "An earthly kingdom Martin Luther Rossi
(1 quote) cannot exist without
inequality of persons.
 Some must be free, some
serfs, some rulers, some
subjects."
"Fantasy abandoned by
3x08 "Lucky"
reason produces Francisco Goya Morgan
(2 Quotes)
impossible monsters."
"God sends meat and the
Thomas Deloney Morgan
devil sends cooks."
3x09 "Penelope" "Love all. Trust a few. Do
William Shakespeare Garcia
(1 quote) wrong to none."
"Superman is, after all, an
3x10 "True Night" alien life form. He's
Clive Barker Reid
(2 quotes) simply the acceptable face
of invading realities."
"The noir hero is a knight
in blood caked armor. He's
dirty and he does his best Frank Miller Garcia
to deny the fact that he's a
hero the whole time.”
"It doesn't matter who my
3x11 "Birthright"
father was, it matters who Anne Sexton Hotch
(2 quotes)
I remember he was."
"A simple child that
lightly draws it's breath
and feels its life in every Wordsworth JJ
limb. What should it know
of death?"
"No man or woman who
3x12 "3rd Life" tries to pursue an ideal in
Daisy Bates Hotch
(2 quotes) his or her own way is
without enemies."
"It is a wise father that
William Shakespeare Hotch
knows his own child."
"I know indeed what evil I
intend to do, but stronger
3x13 "Limelight" than all my afterthoughts
Euripides Rossi
(2 quotes) is my fury...fury that
brings upon mortals the
greatest evils."
"For we pay a price for
everything we get or take
in this world; and although
Lucy Maud Montgomery Rossi
ambitions are well worth
having, they are not to be
cheaply won."
"...within the core of each
of us is the child we once
were. This child
3x14 "Damaged" Neuroscientist, Dr. R.
constitutes the foundation Rossi
(2 quotes) Joseph
of what we have become,
who we are, and what we
will be."
"There is no formula for Arthur Rubinstein Hotch
success except perhaps an
 unconditional acceptance
of life and what it brings."
"There is no refuge from
3x15 "A Higher Power"
confession but suicide; Daniel Webster Rossi
(2 quotes)
and suicide is confession."
"The most authentic thing
about us is our capacity to
create, to overcome, to
Ben Okri Prentiss
endure, to transform, to
love and to be greater than
our suffering."
3x16 "Elephant's "A sad soul can kill you
Memory" quicker, far quicker, than a John Steinbeck Reid
(2 quotes) germ."
"We cross our bridges
when we come to them
and burn them behind us,
with nothing to show for
our progress except a Tom Stoppard Reid
memory of the smell of
smoke, and a presumption
that once our eyes
watered."
"There are no secrets
3x17 "In Heat"
better kept than the secrets George Bernard Shaw JJ
(2 quotes)
that everybody guesses."
"If we knew each other's
secrets, what comforts we John Churton Collins JJ
should find."
"No man is happy without
a delusion of some kind.
3x18 "The Crossing"
Delusions are as necessary Christian Nestell Bovee Prentiss
(2 quotes)
to our happiness as
realities."
"A woman must not
depend upon the
protection of man, but Susan B. Anthony JJ
must be taught to protect
herself. "
"All changes, even the
most longed for, have
their melancholy; for what
3x19 "Tabula Rasa"
we leave behind us is a Anatole France Hotch
(2 quotes)
part of ourselves. We must
die to one life before we
can enter another."
"What though the radiance
that was once so bright, be
now forever taken from
my sight. Though nothing
William Wordsworth
can bring back the hour of
(This is not a quote but Reid
splendor in the grass, of
part of a poem.)
glory in the flower; We
will grieve not, rather find
strength in what remains
behind."
 "The man visited by
ecstasies and visions, who
3x20 "Lo-Fi" takes dreams for realities
Voltaire Hotch
(1 quote) is an enthusiast; the man
who supports his madness
with murder is a fanatic."