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Joel Kinnaman Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn’t last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: Peace, Illusion, Struggle, Human Nature
“Sometimes, belief isn’t about what we can see. It’s about what we can’t.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Rage in Heaven
Tagged: Belief, visible, Faith
“Humanity has spread to the stars. We set out like ancient seafarers to explore the limitless ocean of space. But no matter how far we venture into the unknown, the worst monsters are those we bring with us.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: In a Lonely Place
Tagged: humanity, Stars, Ocean, Space, unknown, monsters, Simile Examples
“The instinct of violence curls inside us like a parasite, waiting for a chance to feed on our rage and multiply until it bursts out of us.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: Violence, Instinct, Simile Examples, Parasite, Rage
“The danger of living too many times: you forget to fear death.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Nora Inu
Tagged: danger, Living, fear death
“What do you know about style, Linden? Thought you shopped at Ross Dress for Less.”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 4: Unraveling
Tagged: style, Ross Dress for Less, Shopping, Sassy
“Ain't nothing like a pleasant drive in the countryside looking at some stinking ass toilets.”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 4: Dream Baby Dream
Tagged: pleasant, Driving, Stinking, Toilets, Countryside
“[as he is being roughed up by a Tribal cop] Take it easy, Thunderheart, you haven't given me a safeword yet.”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 2: Keylela
Tagged: Safeword, S&M
“Finding truth is more than a search for data. It’s an excavation of self. You have to keep going, no matter where it takes you. Because nothing can stay hidden forever.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: The Wrong Man
Tagged: Truth, Search, Data, Keep Going, Forever
“For children who were never allowed to grow up, greed isn’t the only motive for killing.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: In a Lonely Place
Tagged: Grow Up, Greed, Motive, Killing
“Death isn’t only about the destruction of the body. Sometimes, just like that, you extinguish one self and another is born. But every birth is violent and there’s no death without pain.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Nora Inu
Tagged: Death, Destruction, Body, Pain, violent
“What we believe shapes who we are. Belief can bring us salvation or destruction. But when you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn’t set you free. It tears you apart.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Clash by Night
Tagged: Shapes, Belief, Salvation, Destruction, Truth, truth sets you free
“Technology advances, but humans don’t. We’re smart monkeys, and what we want is always the same. Food, shelter, sex, and in all its forms, escape.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: technology advances, humans, smart monkeys, food, Shelter, Sex, escapes
“You wanna grab a shower before we hit the road. You look like shit.”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 4: Blood in the Water
Tagged: shower, Look Like Shit, Hit the road, Sassy
“Alright. Chill, Linden. Do some push-ups or something.”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 4: Truth Asunder
Tagged: Chill, Push-Ups, Working Out
“A man who never loves gives no hostage to fortune.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Man with My Face
Tagged: Love, Hostage, Fortune
“War is the only thing we really understand.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: War, Understand, only thing
“I´m already beautiful, so...”
— Stephen Holder, The Killing, Season 3: Seventeen
Tagged: beauty, Full of Oneself, Self Confidence
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