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“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
“Everything’s ending. Time to wake up.”
— Frank Semyon, True Detective, Season 2: Omega Station
Tagged: New Beginnings, Make It New, Ending
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
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