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Dexter Morgan Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“We all make rules for ourselves. It's these rules that help define who we are. So when we break those rules we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 7: Surprise, Motherfucker!
Tagged: Rules, What Keeps Our Life In Order, Identity
“They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being, it’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: The Big One
Tagged: Human Connections, Sad, Loneliness, Disconnected From Humanity, Loneliness
“Pretend. You pretend the feelings are there, for the world, for the people around you.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Circle of Friends
Tagged: Pretend, Feelings, World
“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed. But I'll never know. I live my life in hiding. My survival depends on it.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Born Free
Tagged: denied, unknown, revealed, Life, Hiding, Survival Mechanism
“Lila: The first step to recovery is accepting who you are.

Dexter: I thought the first step was admitting you have a problem.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: See-Through
Tagged: Recovery, accepting, Admitting, Problem
“High school. A small world unto itself. Combining all the warmest elements of a federal work camp with those of a third world poultry farm. It's a miracle I graduated without killing anyone.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 6: Smokey and the Bandit
Tagged: high school, Federal Work Camp, Poultry Farm
“We all want life to have some meaning. Seems like the older we get, the harder we look for it. And the harder it is to find.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 6: Smokey and the Bandit
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Meaning Of Life
“I can kill a man, dismember his body, and be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend's feeling insecure...I'm totally lost.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
Tagged: Murder, dismemberment, David Letterman
“I see their pain. On some level I even understand their pain. I just can't feel their pain.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
Tagged: Pain, Empathy, sociopathy
“I’ve never had much use for the concept of hell, but if hell exists, I'm in it. The same images running through my head, over and over.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Truth Be Told
Tagged: Hell, Mental Torture
“I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Born Free
Tagged: Darkness, Eyesight
“There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
Tagged: Secrets, hidden truths
“I chose Rita because she was damaged. If she gets better I'll lose her for sure.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Shrink Wrap
Tagged: Loss, damaged
“The willful taking of life represents the ultimate disconnect from humanity. It leaves you an outsider, forever looking in, searching for company to keep.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Popping Cherry
Tagged: Life, Disconnect, humanity, Outsider
“ I also know denial is the first stage of the grieving process for those who learn they're going to die.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: See-Through
Tagged: Denial, Death, first stage, Grieving
“I never really got the whole superhero thing. But lately, it does seem we have a lot in common; tragic beginnings; secret identities; part human, part mutant; archenemies.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: The Dark Defender
Tagged: Superhero, in common, tragic, Secret, human, mutant, enemies
“Did you happen to be stuffing a human leg into a garbage bag at that point?”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Left Turn Ahead
Tagged: stuffing, human leg, garbage bag, Murder, Death
“People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Dexter
Tagged: fake, Phony, sociopathy
“So, Miami is the haystack and the ice truck's the needle, right? Brother, I just found the fucking needle!”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
“The worst thing about finally putting together a puzzle is finding there are missing pieces.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
Tagged: Puzzle, Missing Pieces
“There are few milestones in life that evoke a stronger response than our final act. Death.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 3: Do You Take Dexter Morgan?
Tagged: Death, Milestone
“Don't be sorry your darkness is gone. I'll carry it for you. Always. I'll keep it with mine.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: Hop a Freighter
Tagged: Sorrow, Darkness
“Everyone hides who they are at least some of the time. Sometimes you bury that part of yourself so deeply that you have to be reminded it's there at all. And sometimes you just want to forget who you are altogether.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Let's Give the Boy a Hand
Tagged: Hides, Bury, Forget who you are, reminded
“ Harry's heart gave out when he saw what's inside me. He thought he could tame it, give it a purpose, help it find a place in the natural order. Guess he was wrong.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Left Turn Ahead
Tagged: heart, gave out, tame it, purpose, Natural Order, Wrong
“I'm a very neat monster.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Dexter
Tagged: neat, cover my tracks, monster, Identity
“The FBI estimates that there are less that 50 serial killers active in the United States today. We don't get together at conventions, share trade secrets, or exchange Christmas cards... but sometimes I wonder what it's like for the others.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Circle of Friends
Tagged: FBI, Serial Killers, conventions, trade secrets
“Life doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 4: Hello, Dexter Morgan
“Think you might have broken a commandment somewhere in there.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: The Dark Defender
Tagged: Commandment, broken
“I love Martha Stewart!”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Dex, Lies, and Videotape
Tagged: Martha Stewart, admiration, Appreciation, Love
“If I had a heart, it might be breaking right now.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Popping Cherry
Tagged: heart, Broken Heart, Sociopath
“If eyes are the window to the soul, then grief is the door. As long as it's closed, it's the barrier between knowing and not knowing. Walk away from it, and it stays closed forever. But open it and walk through it, and pain becomes truth.”
— Dexter Morgan
“Is that the purpose of remorse, to keep you from repeating mistakes?”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 4: Road Kill
Tagged: Remorse, Mistakes
“We all have something to hide; some dark place inside us we don't want the world to see. So we pretend everything's okay, wrapping ourselves in rainbows. And maybe that's all for the best. Because some of these places are darker than others.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: First Blood
Tagged: Hiding, Evasion, Secrets
“My life has always felt like an unanswered question. A string of days and nights, waiting for something to happen - I didn't know what. Rita, we're connected. Where ever I am, I feel you. And the kids. With me. They're what make me real. I want us to always go out for banana splits. And replant the lemon tree that keeps dying. And I never ever want to miss a pizza night. And that's how I know I want to marry you. Because something as simple as pizza night is the highlight of my week. But not without the kids.”
— Dexter Morgan
“Man has always been drawn to the sea. But it's an unnatural setting for us, a place of great danger. Tides, currents, waves, wind, each presenting their own hazards, none of which can be ignored. The slightest lapse of judgment can be a mistake you might never recover from. But a good sailor doesn't fight against these elements. A good sailor works with them, using them to his advantage. While others less fortunate might be forever cast adrift, often in several pieces. He always comes home safely.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 4: Slack Tide
Tagged: Unnatural, Tides, currents, Sea, Adrift, Sailor, Hazards
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