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Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“One thing I learned, the war? Life happens now. Then later's now, y'know? It's never behind you.”
— Wayne Hays, True Detective, Season 3: Hunters in the Dark
Tagged: Time
“Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: After You've Gone
Tagged: Choosing A Profession, Learning, Education
“The bad thing it makes you better. Stronger. It gives you something most people don’t have. Bad as this is, wrong as it is... This hurt... it can make you a better man. That’s what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside.”
— Frank Semyon, True Detective, Season 2: Church in Ruins
Tagged: The Obstacle Is The Way, Through Pain We Grow, Your Wound Is Your Talent, Pain, What To Say To Someone Suffering, Meaning In Suffering, Great Pain, Coming Out On The Other Side
“It’s all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: Space, Outer Space
“In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Secret Fate of All Life
Tagged: Eternity, When Time Freezes, Fate, Eternal Return, Reincarnation, No Escape
“Sometimes your worst self is your best self. You know what I’m saying?”
— Frank Semyon, True Detective, Season 2: Down Will Come
Tagged: Your Worst Is Your Best, Just Be Yourself, Monster of You
“Most of the last decade I spent stone-drunk. Functional, but hammered.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: After You've Gone
Tagged: Functioning Alcoholic, Alcohol, Drinking Too Much
“Kids are the only thing that matter. They’re the only reason for this whole man-woman drama.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: Who Goes Here?
Tagged: Why We Get Married, Children, Parenthood, kids, Meaning of Relationships
“You know, people that give me advice, I reckon they’re talking to themselves.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: Haunted Houses
Tagged: What To Say When You Don't Need Advice, Stop Helping Me, Things To Say When You Don't Want To Hear It, Sassy
“I wasn't a fearful man. I did things some people even called brave. Y'all made a coward of me. I been terrified since the day you were born.”
— Wayne Hays, True Detective, Season 3: Hunters in the Dark
Tagged: Scared Of Having Kids, Having Kids, Being Scared Of Your Kids
“Of course I’m dangerous. I’m police. I could do terrible things to people... with impunity.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: Seeing Things
Tagged: Police, Standing Above Justice, Cops Getting Away With Things, Cops
“I'll tell you guys, believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”
— Martin Hart, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective
“Marty: What do you call a black man who flies a plane? 

Bobby: I don’t know. 

Marty: Pilot, you racist bastard.”
— Martin Hart, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: After You've Gone
Tagged: racism, Jokes To Reveal Implicit Racism
“I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore.”
— Ray Velcoro, True Detective, Season 2: The Western Book of the Dead
Tagged: Astronauts, Going To Space
“This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: True Detective
“Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Secret Fate of All Life
Tagged: True Detective
“This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Secret Fate of All Life
Tagged: True Detective
“Solution to my whole life was right under my nose— that woman, those kids— and I was watching everything else. See, infidelity is one kind of sin, but my true failure was inattention.”
— Martin Hart, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Secret Fate of All Life
Tagged: Men Regretting Cheating, Losing Your Family, Family, Inattention, What Happens When You Move Through Life With Your Eyes Closed
“Everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that, you’re living wrong.”
— Rust Cohle, Supernatural, Season 11: Form and Void
Tagged: Judgement, Humans Judge, critical mind
“Alaska is beautiful. It’s not Paris, but it’s clean, and it’s clear.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Locked Room
Tagged: Alaska, Rural Vs. Urban, Cities vs. Nature, Beauty of Alaska
“Sometimes a good beating provokes personal growth.”
— Ray Velcoro, True Detective, Season 2: Night Finds You
Tagged: Growth Through Violence, Aestheticization of Violence, Through Pain We Grow, Fighting, Violence, Bullying Builds Character
“Look me in the eyes. I want to watch your lights go out.”
— Frank Semyon, True Detective, Season 2: Black Maps and Motel Rooms
Tagged: What To Say When You're Killing Somone, Murder, Watching Someone Die
“What always happens between men and women? Reality.”
— Martin Hart, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Secret Fate of All Life
Tagged: Reality of Relationships, Breaking Up, Why Relationships End, Breaking Up After A Wedding, Men And Women, Reality Sucks
“My strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.”
— Ray Velcoro, True Detective, Season 2: Night Finds You
Tagged: Human Nature, We Get What We Deserve, Conservative Cynicism
“Pain is inexhaustible.”
— Ray Velcoro, True Detective, Season 2: Other Lives
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Limits of Pain
“I try to limit the people I can disappoint.”
— Ray Velcoro, True Detective, Season 2: Other Lives
Tagged: Cynical, Scared of The World
“Rust: I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. 

Marty: Um, okay. What’s that mean? 

Rust: Means I’m bad at parties.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: Pessimism, Cynical, Being Cynical, Jokes About Being Cynical, Introverts
“Once, there was only dark. If you ask me, the light’s winning.”
— Rust Cohle, Supernatural, Season 11: Form and Void
Tagged: Creation, Light vs. Dark, Night vs. Day, Cosmic Battles
“Everything’s ending. Time to wake up.”
— Frank Semyon, True Detective, Season 2: Omega Station
Tagged: New Beginnings, Make It New, Ending
“To realize that all your life… you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain, it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Locked Room
Tagged: True Detective
“I was just a regular type dude, with a big ass dick.”
— Martin Hart, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective
“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then brother that person is a piece of shit. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the
goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Locked Room
Tagged: True Detective
“A lost child is a void that echoes backwards and forwards in time. It encompasses not just the rooms you were in with them and are no longer, or even those rooms you will never enter together. The negation is deeper. It is the knowledge that in every room you enter for the rest of your life, they should be there, and are not. And your memories of them become totems to that absence. A lost child is a story that's never allowed to end.”
— Amelia Reardon, True Detective, Season 3: Hunters in the Dark
Tagged: Death, Lost Child, Kidnapping
“We all got what I call a life trap, this gene-deep certainty that things will be different, that you’ll move to another city and meet the people that’ll be the friends for the rest of your life, that you’ll fall in love and be fulfilled. F*cking fulfillment and closure, whatever the f*ck those two… F*cking empty jars to hold this shitstorm, and nothing is ever fulfilled until the very end, and closure… No. No, no. Nothing is ever over.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Locked Room
Tagged: True Detective
“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
— Rust Cohle, True Detective, True Detective Season 1: The Long Bright Dark
Tagged: True Detective
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