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Nathaniel Halpern Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“A delusion starts like any other idea, as an egg. Identical on the outside, perfectly formed. From the shell, you’d never know anything was wrong. It’s what’s inside that matters.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: delusions, delusional, wise
“Do what you want. Take what you want. Gods make rules. They don’t follow them.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 15
Tagged: God, Do what you want
“Where the pessimist sees danger hiding behind every back, the optimist sees friendship. Which is why, when we encounter coincidence, we often see conspiracy.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: Optimism, Pessimisim, Friendship, coincidence, Conspiracy
“When you become my age, you realize it’s not about the thing done. It’s the beauty of the plan.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: The Plan, beauty, Trust The Process
“Is it such a terrible thing to feel sorrow for your enemy? What is he, except a brother with another name?”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: enemies, Enemy, Loving Your Enemy
“What is the universe without each sunrise? That’s how we judge our gods, not on their math but their poetry.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: sunrise, Universe, Poetry, Faith
“Human beings are the only animal that forms ideas about their world. We perceive it not through our bodies but through our minds. We must agree on what is real. Because of this, we are the only animal on Earth that goes mad.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 10
Tagged: humanity, Madness, Reality
“The money is a tool, you see. Nothing more. Power. Because without power, who would listen?”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 17
Tagged: Money, Power, Money and Power
“If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: Reality, Illness, Mental Illness
“I’ll watch for you as best I can, but things get muddy out there in the vast subconscious. Remember, it’s not real unless you make it real.”
— Oliver Bird, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 4
Tagged: Subconscious, It's Real, You Have The Power
“Do you know what love is? It’s a hot bath. What happens to things when you leave them in a bath for too long? They get soft, fall apart.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Love, What love is, Things Fall Apart
“Do you know what the saddest words are in the English language? 'Vacant lot.'”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: Empty, Sad, Words, English Language
“You can make someone do what they don’t want to do, but there’s no force on Earth that makes you enjoy it.”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 18
Tagged: Forcing Something, force, Human Nature
“It’s a war, baby, this life. The things we endure. You said you saw the future, and it’s an apocalypse. Who survives that, the lovers or the fighters? They sell us this lie that love’s gonna save us. All it does is make us stupid and weak.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Life, Life And Love, Love
“If we get lost, we get lost together.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: lost, Getting Lost, Lost Together
“We moved through a city of normals, soldiers in a secret war. We were the ghosts in a haunted house, the golem of myth. To the normal, we were just superstition, make-believe. Sometimes it felt like that to us too. To me, I was a woman who couldn’t be touched, in love with a man who wasn’t there. What was real?”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 4
Tagged: normal, Mental Illness, What Is Real
“Love isn’t gonna save us. It’s what we have to save. Pain makes us strong enough to do it. All our scars, our anger, our despair, it’s armor. Baby, God loves the sinners best because our fire burns bright, bright, bright. Burn with me.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Pain, Love, Love Won't Save You, Sinners
“Ask yourself: what’s more terrifying? Fear, or the frightened.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 15
Tagged: Fear, The Frightened
“The greatest monsters are the ones in human clothes.”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 10
Tagged: monsters, Humans Are Monsters, Human Nature, Evil
“What are years? Just trips around the sun.”
— Oliver Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 17
Tagged: years, Life, Life Philosophy
“We all die eventually. The real tragedy is forgetting to live.”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 10
Tagged: Living Life To The Fullest, Forgetting To Live, Death
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