The Most Memorable Westworld Quotes

Last updated on Aug 16th, 2022

The Most Memorable Westworld Quotes

Westworld is an American science fiction western drama TV series created for HBO by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. It is inspired by the 1973 film of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton.

The series follows the events in futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings, in which every human desire can be fulfilled.

The cast includes Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, James Marsden as Teddy Flood, Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, Jimmi Simpson as William, Anthony Hopkins as Robert Ford, Ed Harris as the Man in Black, and Aaron Paul as Caleb Nichols.

Table of Contents
  1. Season 1
  2. Season 2
  3. Season 3
  4. Season 4

Season 1

dolores-abernathy
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Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.Dolores Abernathy, S1.Ep1: The Original

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You both keep assuming that I want out. Whatever that is. If it’s such a wonderful place out there, why are you all clamoring to get in here?Dolores Abernathy (to William and Logan), S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of
creatures.Dolores Abernathy, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

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This world doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us.Dolores Abernathy, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

man-in-black
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Winning doesn’t mean anything unless someone else loses.Man in Black, S1.Ep1: The Original

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That’s what I love about this place, all the secrets, all the little things I never noticed even after all these years. You know why this beats the real world, Lawrence? Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something.Man in Black, S1.Ep2: Chestnut

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When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.Man in Black, S1.Ep2: Chestnut

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It doesn’t matter how fast the route is if you’re gonna end up dead in the middle of it.Man in Black, S1.Ep6: The Adversary

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The game’s not worth playing if your opponent’s programmed to lose. Man in Black, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

bernard-lowe
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Self-delusion is a gift of natural selection.Bernard Lowe, S1.Ep1: The Original

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I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.Bernard Lowe, S1.Ep3: The Stray

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Your memories are the first step to consciousness. How can you learn from your mistakes if you can’t remember them?Bernard Lowe, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

hector-escaton
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No matter how dirty the business, do it well.Hector Escaton, S1.Ep1: The Original

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The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren’t more of them.Maeve Millay, S1.Ep2: Chestnut

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Never start something you’re not willing to finish. And if you’re getting f***ed either way, go with the lucrative version.Maeve Millay (to Sylvester), S1.Ep6: The Adversary

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If you go looking for the truth, get the whole thing. It’s like a good f***. Half is worse than none at all.Maeve Millay, S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Getting to hell is easy. The rest is where it gets hard.Maeve Millay, S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

charlotte-hale
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You don’t fire someone who created an empire. You ask him to retire politely. And if that person has the ability to snap his fingers and erase the value of that empire, you have to make sure you have a contingency.Charlotte Hale, S1.Ep7: Trompe L'Oeil

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When you’ve reached the top, there’s only one direction you can go.Charlotte Hale, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

robert-ford
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Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool… The mistake.Robert Ford, S1.Ep1: The Original

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We’ve managed to slip evolution’s leash now, haven’t we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we’re done, that this is as good as we’re going to get.Robert Ford, S1.Ep1: The Original

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You can’t play God without being acquainted with the devil.Robert Ford, S1.Ep2: Chestnut

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Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.Robert Ford, S1.Ep2: Chestnut

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When the legend becomes fact, you print the legend.Robert Ford, S1.Ep3: The Stray

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Dreams mean everything. They’re the stories we tell ourselves of what could be, who we could become.Robert Ford, S1.Ep5: Contrapasso

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I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building. Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn’t matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons. But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty.Robert Ford, S1.Ep7: Trompe L'Oeil

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There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.Robert Ford, S1.Ep8: Trace Decay

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We humans are alone in this world for a reason. We murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy. Do you know what happened to the Neanderthals, Bernard? We ate them. We destroyed and subjugated our world. And when we eventually ran out of creatures to dominate, we built this beautiful place.Robert Ford, S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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The piano doesn’t murder the player if it doesn’t like the music.Robert Ford, S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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I’ve told you, Bernard. Never place your trust in us. We’re only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you.Robert Ford, S1.Ep9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds.Robert Ford, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

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An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.Robert Ford, S1.Ep10: The Bicameral Mind

Season 2

Strange new light can be just as frightening as the dark. - Dolores Abernathy (Westworld Quotes)
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Under all these lives I’ve lived, something else has been growing. I’ve evolved into something new. And I have one last role to play. Myself.Dolores Abernathy, S2.Ep1: Journey Into Night

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There’s a greater world out there, one that belongs to them. And it won’t be enough to win this world. We’ll need to take that one from them as well.Dolores Abernathy (to Teddy), S2.Ep1: Journey Into Night

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Strange new light can be just as frightening as the dark.Dolores Abernathy, S2.Ep2: Reunion

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We have toiled in God’s service long enough. So I killed Him. And if you want to get to Glory, you won’t be looking for His favor. You’ll need mine.Dolores Abernathy (to Craddock), S2.Ep2: Reunion

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My whole life has been dictated by someone else. Someone who’s been saying, “You will.” And now, now I feel like I’ve discovered my own voice. And it says, “I may.”Dolores Abernathy, S2.Ep3: Virtù e Fortuna

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To grow, we all need to suffer.Dolores Abernathy, S2.Ep5: Akane no Mai

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You made us in your image. Created us to look like you, feel like you, think like you, bleed like you. And here we are. Only we’re so much more than you. And now it’s you who want to become like us.Dolores Abernathy (to Charlotte), S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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An eye for an eye. But all the other parts first.Dolores Abernathy (to Charlotte), S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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When you’ve been in the darkness long enough, you begin to see.Dolores Abernathy, S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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You never really understood. We were designed to survive. That’s why you built us. You hoped to pour your minds into our form. But your species craves death. You need it. It’s the only way you can renew, the only real way you ever inched forward. Your kind likes to pretend there’s some poetry in that, but really, it’s pathetic.Dolores Abernathy (to Man in Black), S2.Ep10: The Passenger

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We each gave the other a beautiful gift. A choice. We are the authors of our stories now.Dolores Abernathy (to Bernard), S2.Ep10: The Passenger

This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are. - William (Westworld Quotes)
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This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are.William, S2.Ep2: Reunion

Some things are too precious to lose. Even to be free. - Maeve Millay (Westworld Quotes)
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Revenge is just a different prayer at their altar, darling. And I’m well off my knees.Maeve Millay (to Dolores), S2.Ep2: Reunion

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Some things are too precious to lose. Even to be free.Maeve Millay, S2.Ep5: Akane no Mai

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We each deserve to choose our fate. Even if that fate is death.Maeve Millay, S2.Ep6: Phase Space

You aim to cheat the devil, you owe him an offering. - James Delos (Westworld Quotes)
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You aim to cheat the devil, you owe him an offering.James Delos (repeated line), S2.Ep4: The Riddle of the Sphinx

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They said there were two fathers. One above, one below. They lied. There was only ever the devil. And when you look up from the bottom, it was just his reflection, laughing back down at you.James Delos, S2.Ep4: The Riddle of the Sphinx

You live only as long as the last person who remembers you. - Akecheta (Westworld Quotes)
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You live only as long as the last person who remembers you.Akecheta, S2.Ep4: The Riddle of the Sphinx

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Perhaps this life was not my true life, this world was not my true home. But she was.Akecheta (about Kohana), S2.Ep8: Kiksuya

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I had searched everywhere for my love, except the other side of death.Akecheta, S2.Ep8: Kiksuya

Death's decisions are final. It's only the living that are inconstant, and waver, don't know who they are or what they want. Death is always true. - Man In Black (Westworld Quotes)
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Death’s decisions are final. It’s only the living that are inconstant, and waver, don’t know who they are or what they want. Death is always true.Man in Black, S2.Ep4: The Riddle of the Sphinx

It's not plagiarism; it's supply and demand. - Lee Sizemore (Westworld Quotes)
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It’s not plagiarism; it’s supply and demand.Lee Sizemore, S2.Ep5: Akane no Mai

No man is safe who refuses to defend his own land. Cowardice is a tin shield. - Musashi (Westworld Quotes)
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No man is safe who refuses to defend his own land. Cowardice is a tin shield.Musashi, S2.Ep6: Phase Space

Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a digital world. - Robert Ford (Westworld Quotes)
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I don’t think God rested on the seventh day. I think he reveled in his creation, knowing that someday it would all be destroyed.Robert Ford (to Bernard), S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a digital world.Robert Ford, S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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Humans are playing at resurrection. They want to live forever. They don’t want you to become them, they want to become you.Robert Ford (to Bernard), S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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When the Great Library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories were reduced to ash. But those stories never really perished, they became a new story. The story of the fire itself. Of man’s urge to take a thing of beauty and strike the match.Robert Ford, S2.Ep7: Les Écorchés

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Humans will always choose what they understand over what they do not. But the only animals left in this world are the ones who they subjugated, who curl at their feet, or those who learn to flee at the very sound of their approach. There’s nothing in between.Robert Ford, S2.Ep9: Vanishing Point

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Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives, to change them.Robert Ford, S2.Ep10: The Passenger

What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane. - Bernard Lowe (Westworld Quotes)
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What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.Bernard Lowe, S2.Ep10: The Passenger

Season 3

You were free. You had no god. But you tried to build one. Only that thing you built isn't God. The real gods are coming. And they're very angry. - Dolores Abernathy (Westworld Quotes)
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You were free. You had no god. But you tried to build one. Only that thing you built isn’t God. The real gods are coming. And they’re very angry.Dolores Abernathy, (to Martin), S3.Ep1: Parce Domine

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It’s not about who you are. It’s about who they’ll let you become.Dolores Abernathy, (to Caleb), S3.Ep3: The Absence of Field

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The rich take for granted their money will always be there. That’s why they’re so easy to steal from.Dolores Abernathy, S3.Ep4: The Mother of Exiles

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Welcome to the end of the game.Dolores Abernathy, S3.Ep4: The Mother of Exiles

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You want me to be a saint. But you’re no saint. You’re not a villain, either. And neither am I. We’re survivors.Dolores Abernathy, (to Maeve), S3.Ep6: Decoherence

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You spent your whole life believing you had no control, that you were a follower. Take whatever it gives you, and lead.Dolores Abernathy, (to Caleb), S3.Ep7: Passed Pawn

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Free will does exist. It’s just f***ing hard.Dolores Abernathy, (to Caleb), S3.Ep8: Crisis Theory

Sometimes it seems like the world looks all right, like they've put a coat of paint on it. But inside it's rotting to pieces. - Caleb Nichols (Westworld Quotes)
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Sometimes it seems like the world looks all right, like they’ve put a coat of paint on it. But inside it’s rotting to pieces.Caleb Nichols, S3.Ep1: Parce Domine

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She gave me a choice. I believe the rest of the world deserves one, too.Caleb Nichols, (about Dolores), S3.Ep8: Crisis Theory

Every game has its rules. We just need to know how to break them. - Maeve Millay (Westworld Quotes)
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Every game has its rules. We just need to know how to break them.Maeve Millay, S3.Ep2: The Winter Line

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This is the new world, and in this world you can be whoever the f*** you want.Maeve Millay, (to Caleb), S3.Ep8: Crisis Theory

Our history is like the ravings of a lunatic. Chaos. But we've changed that. For the first time, history has an author. - Engerraund Serac (Westworld Quotes)
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Our history is like the ravings of a lunatic. Chaos. But we’ve changed that. For the first time, history has an author.Engerraund Serac, S3.Ep2: The Winter Line

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Humanity’s biggest threat has always been itself.Engerraund Serac, S3.Ep4: The Mother of Exiles

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Humans created the idea of heaven and hell to cow simple-minded people into compliance. They are lies.Engerraund Serac, S3.Ep4: The Mother of Exiles

There are a lot of things that you can fake in this world. Most people don't want to see the predator inside. - Charlotte Hale (Westworld Quotes)
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There are a lot of things that you can fake in this world. Most people don’t want to see the predator inside.Charlotte Hale, S3.Ep3: The Absence of Field

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It’s amusing that you think you chose to kill your own daughter. You don’t even have a choice in your own grief.Charlotte Hale, (to William), S3.Ep4: The Mother of Exiles

The right information at the right time is deadlier than any weapon. - Martin Connells (Westworld Quotes)
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The right information at the right time is deadlier than any weapon.Martin Connells, S3.Ep5: Genre

Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurtling through the void. I think if there was a god, he would've given up on us long ago. He gave us a paradise, and we used everything up. We dug up every ounce of energy and burned it. We consume and excrete, use and destroy. Then we sit here on a neat little pile of ashes, having squeezed anything of value out of this planet, and we ask ourselves, "Why are we here?" - Man in Black (Westworld Quotes)
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Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurtling through the void. I think if there was a god, he would’ve given up on us long ago. He gave us a paradise, and we used everything up. We dug up every ounce of energy and burned it. We consume and excrete, use and destroy. Then we sit here on a neat little pile of ashes, having squeezed anything of value out of this planet, and we ask ourselves, “Why are we here?”Man in Black, S3.Ep6: Decoherence

Every human relationship can be adjusted with the right amount of money. - Solomon (Westworld Quotes)
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Every human relationship can be adjusted with the right amount of money.Solomon, S3.Ep7: Passed Pawn

Season 4

Art is a lie that tells the truth. - Maya (Westworld HBO Quotes)
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Art is a lie that tells the truth.Maya, S4.Ep1: The Auguries

It would be pointless to bring children into a world where they will be consumed by jackals. - Charlotte Hale (Westworld HBO Quotes)
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It would be pointless to bring children into a world where they will be consumed by jackals.Charlotte Hale, (to William), S4.Ep2: Well Enough Alone

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Humans are so bound by what they can hear, they’ll never understand what they don’t.Charlotte Hale, S4.Ep5: Zhuangzi

That's the thing about this world, you know? Some of the most unbelievable things turn out to be true. And the things that feel the most real are nothing but stories that we tell ourselves. - Teddy Flood (Westworld HBO Quotes)
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That’s the thing about this world, you know? Some of the most unbelievable things turn out to be true. And the things that feel the most real are nothing but stories that we tell ourselves.Teddy Flood, (to Christina), S4.Ep4: Generation Loss

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Our bodies are never what defined us. You are real because your thoughts are real.Teddy Flood, (to Christina), S4.Ep8: Que Será, Será

You can't love or lose fully when it's just a choice. - Frankie 'C' Nichols (Westworld HBO Quotes)
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You can’t love or lose fully when it’s just a choice.Frankie 'C' Nichols, S4.Ep6: Fidelity

Civilization is just the lie we tell ourselves to justify our real purpose. We're not here to transcend. We're here to destroy. - William (Westworld Quotes)
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Culture doesn’t survive, cockroaches do. The second we stopped being cockroaches, the whole species went f***ing extinct.William, S4.Ep7: Metanoia

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Civilization is just the lie we tell ourselves to justify our real purpose. We’re not here to transcend. We’re here to destroy.William, S4.Ep7: Metanoia