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10 Brutal Truths and Philosophies From Rust Cohle In 'True Detective' That Will Make Your Mind Wander

Its all one ghetto man. 
Bianca Sparacino
November 22, 2016
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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