BoJack Horseman

24 Dark 'BoJack Horseman' Quotes That Hit A Little Too Close To Home

You are a horrible person, and you not understanding that you're a horrible person, doesn't make you less of a horrible person.
Katie Mather
October 7, 2016
“Diane: 'What have you been doing?'

BoJack: 'Mostly sitting around the house complaining about things.'

Diane: 'Yeah? How's that working out for you?'

BoJack: 'Can't complain.'”
— Diane, BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Complaining
“I don't think I believe in 'deep down'. I think that all you are is just the things that you do.”
— Diane, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Deep Down
“You know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any goodness I started with just slowly spilled out of me, and now it's all gone. And I'll never get it back in me. It's too late. Life is a series of closing doors, isn't it?”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness
“BoJack: 'What are you thinking about?'

"Charlotte: 'Oh, just how nice it could have been if you'd chosen this life.'”
— BoJack Horseman, Charlotte, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Life
“You are a horrible person, and you not understanding that you're a horrible person, doesn't make you less of a horrible person.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Horrible People
“That’s the problem with life, you either know what you want, and you don’t get what you want, or you get what you want, and you don’t know what you want.”
— Diane, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Life, Problem
“The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead.”
— Mr. Peanutbutter, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Life, cruel, Meaning
“Closure is a made up thing by Steven Spielberg to sell movie tickets. It, like true love and the Munich Olympics, doesn't exist in the real world. The only thing to do now is just to keep living forward.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Closure
“BoJack, when I was your age, I got sad. A lot. I didn't come from such a great home, but one day, I started running, and that seemed to make sense, so then I just kept running. BoJack, when you get sad, you run straight ahead and you keep running forward, no matter what. There are people in your life who are gonna try to hold you back, slow you down, but you don't let them. Don't you stop running and don't you ever look behind you. There's nothing for you behind you. All that exists is what's ahead.”
— Secretariat, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Future
“Your father and I, we, well... you come by it honestly, the ugliness inside you. You were born broken, that's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects your books and your movies and your little girlfriends but... that won't make you whole.”
— Beatrice, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, broken, ugliness
“You know what your problem is? You want to think of yourself as the good guy. Well, I know you better than anyone, and I can tell you that you're not. In fact, you'd probably sleep a lot better at night if you just admitted to yourself that you're a selfish goddamn coward who just takes whatever he wants and doesn't give a shit about who he hurts. That's you.”
— Herb, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Problem, Selfish
“Wanda: '...What happened, BoJack?'
 
BoJack: 'Same thing that always happens. You didn't know me. Then you fell in love with me. And now you know me.'”
— Wanda, BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Love
“You know, it's funny... when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
— Wanda, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Sadness, Love, red flags
“BoJack: 'Todd, I'm sorry, alright? I screwed up, I- I know I screwed up, I—'
 
Todd: 'Oh great, of course! Here it comes! You can't keep doing this! You can't keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You need to be better!'
 
BoJack: 'I know, and I'm sorry, okay? I was drunk and there was all this pressure with the Oscar campaign, but now that it's over, I- I- I—'
 
Todd: 'No! No. BoJack, just... stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you. It's not the alcohol or the drugs or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career or when you were a kid, it's you! Alright? It's you. ...Fuck, man. What else is there to say?'”
— BoJack Horseman, Todd, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Apologies
“We're not doomed. In the great, grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now, this moment, this one spectacular moment we are sharing together.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Doomed, Forgotten
“I don’t understand how people… live. It’s amazing to me that people wake up every morning and say: ‘Yeah, another day, let’s do it.’ How do people do it? I don’t know how.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Living
“He’s so stupid he doesn’t realize how miserable he should be. I envy that.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Miserable
“I can’t say no to people because I want everyone to like me.”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness
“It’s not about being happy, that is the thing. I’m just trying to get through each day. I can’t keep asking myself ‘Am I happy?' It just makes me more miserable. I don’t know If I believe in it, real lasting happiness, All those perky, well-adjusted people you see in movies and TV shows ? I don’t think they exist.”
— Diane, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Happiness
“I don’t know what to tell you. I’m happy for the first time in my life and I’m not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realize how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn’t have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.”
— Fuzzy Whiskers, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Happiness
“When you do bad things, you have something you can point to when people eventually leave you. It’s not you, you tell yourself. It’s that bad thing you did.”
— The Closer, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Bad Things
“It's so cruel to let people love you. All you're doing is promising you'll one day break their hearts.”
— Captain Peanutbutter, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Love
“Settle. Because otherwise you’re just gonna get older and harder, and more alone. And you’re gonna do everything you can to fill that hole, with friends, and your career, and meaningless sex, but the hole doesn’t get filled. One day, you’re gonna look around and you’re going to realize that everybody loves you, but nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world”
— BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, settle
“After I almost drowned, I decided I would never again be weaker than water, so I became a lifeguard. On my first day of training, my instructor told me that there are going to be times when you'll see someone in trouble. You're going to want to rush in there and do whatever you can to save them, but you have to stop yourself. Because there are some people you can't save. Cause those people will thrash and struggle, and try to take you down with them.”
— Ana Spanakopita, BoJack Horseman
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Saving Lives, Struggle