The X-Files

33 X-Files Quotes That Will Make You See The Universe In An Entirely New Way

Though we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways, on this planet we are all alone.
Holly Riordan
January 25, 2017
“It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 6: The Rain King
Tagged: X-Files, Friendship, Relationships
“Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: The Walk
Tagged: X-Files, Insanity, Sane
“I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: Aubrey
Tagged: X-Files, Dreams, Questions
“No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough.”
— Susanne Modeski, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 5: Unusual Suspects
Tagged: X-Files, Paranoid, Paranoia
“The truth is out there. But so are lies.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Young at Heart
Tagged: X-Files, Truth, Lies
“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Talitha Cumi
Tagged: X-Files, Science, Religion
“If coincidences are coincidences, why do they seem so contrived?”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: D.P.O.
Tagged: X-Files, Coincidences, Mystery
“I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.”
— Fox Mulder,
Tagged: X-Files, Fear, Courage
“We over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: The Jersey Devil
Tagged: X-Files, humans, Destruction
“We send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe, and we don't even know what's behind them.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Space
Tagged: X-Files, Space, Universe
“No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: X-Files, Government, Truth
“I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Beyond the Sea
Tagged: X-Files, Afraid, Fear, believing
“Looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.”
— Dana Scully, Vikings, Season 3: Born Again
Tagged: X-Files, explanations, Mystery
“Trust no one.”
— Deep Throat, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: The Erlenmeyer Flask
Tagged: X-Files, Trust, skepticism
“Whatever you're feeling, you did the right thing.”
— Dana Scully, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 3: Ascension
Tagged: X-Files, Feelings, Guilt
“Children aren't born liking sunflower seeds. Environments shape them; behavior patterns are taught.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: Aubrey
Tagged: X-Files, Children, Growing Up
“Did you really think you could call up the Devil and ask him to behave?”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: Die Hand Die Verletzt
Tagged: X-Files, devil, Evil
“You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles, Agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win.”
— Mr. X, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: End Game
Tagged: X-Files, War, Battles
“You can't protect the public by lying to them.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: F. Emasculata
Tagged: X-Files, Lies, Government
“The dead are no longer lonely.”
— Virgil Incanto, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: 2Shy
Tagged: X-Files, dead, Lonely
“I'm afraid that God is speaking and no one is listening.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Revelations
Tagged: X-Files, God, Religion
“Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Grotesque
Tagged: X-Files, Imagination, Expectations
“Conscience is just the voices of the dead trying to save us from our own damnation.”
— Christopher Johansen, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Piper Maru
Tagged: X-Files, Conscience, dead
“Though we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways, on this planet we are all alone.”
— Jose Chung, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
Tagged: X-Files, Alone, Lonely
“Life... is like a box of chocolates - A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, and the taste is... fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.”
— The Cigarette-Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 4: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Tagged: X-Files, Life, Chocolates
“I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky, you get 75 years, if you're really lucky you get 80 years, and if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to live 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.”
— Fox Mulder, NCIS, Season 10: Detour
Tagged: X-Files, Age, Growing Up, Death
“And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 5: All Souls
Tagged: X-Files, God, Religion
“These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. When we hear a sound, we get a chill. We see a shadow and we allow ourselves to imagine something that an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. The whole idea of a benevolent entity fits perfectly with what I'm saying. That a spirit would materialize or return for no other purpose than to show itself is silly and ridiculous.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 6: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tagged: X-Files, Ghosts, spirits
“I want to believe so badly; in a truth beyond our own hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless procession of souls, in what cannot and will not be destroyed. I want to believe we are unaware of God's eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see His truth. That that which is born still lives and cannot be buried in the cold earth. But only waits to be born again at God's behest, where in ancient starlight we lay in repose.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 7: The Sixth Extinction
Tagged: X-Files, God, believing, Truth
“That which makes miracles, can also make great evil.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 7: En Ami
Tagged: X-Files, Evil, Miracles