70+ Mind-Blowing American Horror Story Quotes

There isn’t a closed door in the world that beauty can’t open.Constance Langdon, S1.Ep2: Home Invasion

They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it’s immortality that a parent loses.Constance Langdon, S1.Ep5: Halloween: Part 2

I have long stopped asking why the mad do mad things.Constance Langdon, S1.Ep10: Smoldering Children

From blood and pain come perfection.Constance Langdon, S1.Ep11: Birth

Life is too short for so much sorrow.Nora Montgomery, S1.Ep11: Birth

Mental illness is the fashionable explanation for sin.Sister Jude, S2.Ep1: Welcome to Briarcliff

We are vultures, attracted to the scent of rotted meat.Lana Winters, (about reporters), S2.Ep11: Spilt Milk

The cruelest thing of all is false hope.Sister Jude, S2.Ep12: Continuum

Lies are like scars on your soul, they destroy you.Lana Winters, S2.Ep13: Madness Ends

If you look in the face of evil, evil’s gonna look right back at you.Sister Jude, S2.Ep13: Madness Ends

When witches don’t fight, we burn.Fiona Goode, S3.Ep1: Bitchcraft

If I wanted you dead, you would be.Marie Laveau, S3.Ep2: Boy Parts

This Coven doesn’t need a new Supreme. It needs a new rug.Fiona Goode, S3.Ep3: The Replacements

Throw me back in the box. I seen enough of this world. I’ll take no part in a country that has a darkie in the White House.Madame Delphine LaLaurie, S3.Ep8: The Sacred Taking

One dog moves out, another moves in. It’s the cycle of life.Fiona Goode, S3.Ep9: Head

Sometimes life is just a bleak pool of despair, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.Desiree Dupree, S4.Ep5: Pink Cupcakes

There comes a time in every mother’s life when she must give up her son to another woman.Dandy Mott, S4.Ep6: Bullseye

Mother always told me, never argue with a woman when she’s angry.Dandy Mott, S4.Ep12: Show Stoppers

You know my motto, always leave them wanting more.Elsa Mars, S4.Ep13: Curtain Call

I can see the pain in your eyes. It’s very familiar. You’ve lost something. And now you’re frozen in time. Can’t move forward. Can’t go back.Liz Taylor, S5.Ep1: Checking In

Messes are always forgiven. The first time.Countess Elizabeth, S5.Ep1: Checking In

You want me to tell you the worst thing in this world? Religion. That and regulations.James March, S5.Ep2: Chutes and Ladders

All great ideas are deadly.Countess Elizabeth, S5.Ep3: Mommy

Murder is one part perspiration, ten parts preparation.James March, S5.Ep4: Devil's Night

You see everything when the world doesn’t see you.Liz Taylor, S5.Ep5: Room Service

Goddesses don’t speak in whispers. They scream.Countess Elizabeth, S5Ep5: Room Service

You can’t shut down one part of yourself without shutting down the whole thing.Liz Taylor, S5.Ep6: Room 33

Death is the only thing in life that has any meaning.John Lowe, S5.Ep8: The Ten Commandments Killer

A man only has a grip as tight as he does because he knows that if he lets go, even slightly, he will hurl himself into the abyss.James March, S5.Ep8: The Ten Commandments Killer

Security can be found only by looking into oneself. Others only make a mess of things.Countess Elizabeth, S5.Ep9: She Wants Revenge

We can’t change the past, but you can choose to move forward and live.Iris, S5.Ep12: Be Our Guest

Love kills a lot more than hate.Liz Taylor, S5.Ep12: Be Our Guest

Only men with full bellies have the luxury of conscience.Tomasyn 'The Butcher' White, S6.Ep4: Chapter 4

The art never judges. I envy it. Life in two dimensions. Frozen in forever beauty. To watch the world go by unencumbered by the gossip and the pain of three-dimensional men.Edward Philippe Mott, S6.Ep5: Chapter 5

The living cling to life above all, but the trophy misprized is to die in peace.Edward Philippe Mott, S6.Ep5: Chapter 5

No one ever goes to their grave regretting they had too much fun.Dominic Banks, S6.Ep7: Chapter 7

You know when you’re drawing a cat or a house and you picture that cat or that house in your mind and it looks so perfect but you just can’t get your hand to live up to that picture in your head? That’s what it’s like to be a parent. You picture how you want to be and it’s so wonderful and flawless, but you can’t ever live up to that picture you imagined.Lee Harris, S6.Ep10: Chapter 10

My fellow Americans, what do humans love the most? To what do we give our highest value? Is it family, friends, our homes, money, notoriety? No. Above all, humans love fear. The fear that over time we have honed and polished and built up, brick by brick, until it stands before us every day as tall as the Trump Tower. How do I know we love fear more than our children? Because we are willing to ruin their lives in service of some irrational fear of losing them.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep1: Election Night

There is nothing more dangerous in this world than a humiliated man.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep1: Election Night

People are going to believe what they’re going to believe. The trick is figuring out what they want to believe and then giving it to them.Winter Anderson, S7.Ep2: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

A man with no label has an allegiance only to what is right.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep4: 11/9

Pain is a call to action. Pain is essential, just like anger is. Take pain in one hand and anger in the other. Use them.Kai Anderson, (to Harrison), S7.Ep4: 11/9

The perception of credibility leads to the perception of power. Because people don’t follow experts anymore, they follow titles.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep5: Holes

Knowing stuff has no value anymore. Not when the answer is in my back pocket or sitting on my desk. The youth has it figured out. The future will be filled with beautiful idiots who just want to feel.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep6: Mid-Western Assassin

Trust is the only thing that forges real partnership.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep7: Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag

You can’t get power by giving it away. You have to take it yourself.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep8: Winter of Our Discontent

Real power is having people loyal enough to you that, if you ask them to, they will kill themselves. They will override their natural survival instinct in service of your needs and will.Kai Anderson, S7.Ep9: Drink the Kool-Aid

There is something more dangerous in this world than a humiliated man. A nasty woman.Ally Mayfair-Richards, (to Kai), S7.Ep11: Great Again

Order on the outside does wonders to keep the chaos safely on the inside.Wilhemina Venable, S8.Ep2: The Morning After

In seconds, we can destroy everything humanity has built over thousands of years, but we will never be free of the desire to be cruel to our fellow man.Michael Langdon, S8.Ep2: The Morning After

All people, if given the right pressures or stimulus, are evil motherf***ers.Michael Langdon, S8.Ep3: Forbidden Fruit

You can’t live with virtue without getting on the bad side of those without.Moira O'Hara, S8.Ep6: Return to Murder House

The only thing that matters in this world isn’t white or black, it’s green. You got money, all the doors open.Dinah Stevens, S8.Ep7: Traitor

If you aren’t where you want to be, just look in the mirror.Mutt Nutter, S8.Ep9: Fire and Reign

You think there’s only winning and losing, success and failure. But failure is when you’ve lost any semblance of hope.Cordelia Goode, (to Michael), S8.Ep10: Apocalypse Then

All you need to have the freedom to do whatever you want is two things: God and trauma.Margaret Booth, S9.Ep2: Mr. Jingles

Don’t feel like you have to change to fit into the world. ‘Cause you’re pretty rad just the way you are.Ray Powell, S9.Ep5: Red Dawn

One day in the sun doesn’t erase five years of darkness.Brooke Thompson, S9.Ep7: The Lady in White

Truth is often stranger than fiction.Stacey Phillips, S9.Ep8: Rest in Pieces

Never let the facts get in the way of the truth, and never let the truth get in the way of a story that sells.Stacey Phillips, S9.Ep8: Rest in Pieces

Name one successful person that isn’t a little f***ing insane.Austin Sommers, (to Harry), S10.Ep2: Pale

There is nothing more addictive than success.Belle Noir, S10.Ep2: Pale

Honey, you’re a paper airplane and I’m a 747. Don’t you ever think you’re anything like me just because you can fly a little.Belle Noir, (to Mickey), S10.Ep3: Thirst

There is nothing more tragic, pathetic, and sad than a person with no talent trying to make it in the world.Ursula, S10.Ep5: Gaslight

To be told we are talented, isn’t that all we ever want? The truth is, history will only remember a handful of us, but at least now we’re leveling the playing field.Ursula, S10.Ep6: Winter Kills

People are gonna use what they have however they see fit. It’s not our business to tell them what to do.Calico, S10.Ep8: Inside

I guess when you live forever, you run out of stories.Calico, S10.Ep10: The Future Perfect

Nobody who grew up in the city hears noise.Gino Barelli, S11.Ep2: Thank You For Your Service

People only pay attention to lives when they’re lost. Not when they’re living.Whitely, S11.Ep4: Black Out

Pride. What does that word mean in the face of so much death? Pride is a construct, something we summon to unite us when we feel tired and weak. Pride takes work, but death comes easily.Gino Barelli, S11.Ep7: The Sentinel

Pain given is pain experienced.Henry Grant, S11.Ep9: Requiem 1981/1987: Part 1

You are way too young to be thinking about how not to die. Don’t forget how to live.Kathy Pizazz, (to Adam), S11.Ep10: Requiem 1981/1987: Part 2

It’s exhausting being better than everyone.Siobhan Corbyn, S12.Ep1: Multiply Thy Pain

You have a peculiar penchant for turning dreams into nightmares.Siobhan Corbyn, (to Anna), S12.Ep1: Multiply Thy Pain

The news cycle has a seven-second memory. There’s no such thing as bad press.Siobhan Corbyn, S12.Ep2: Rockabye

It’s kind of funny. We came out here to hide only to be living in a house literally made of glass.Anna Victoria Alcott, (to Dex), S12.Ep2: Rockabye

It is kind of funny. Every little girl dreams of being a movie star. Marilyn Monroe. They never think about what it really means.Dexter Harding, (to Anna), S12.Ep3: When the Bough Breaks

You’ve earned this. And even if you haven’t, I have.Siobhan Corbyn, (to Anna), S12.Ep3: When the Bough Breaks

Nobody is ready for anything. Motherhood, stardom, miscarriages… We’re all just learning on the job.Siobhan Corbyn, (to Anna), S12.Ep3: When the Bough Breaks

I’m using you, and you’re using me. There’s nothing wrong with a little transactional sеx. Or transactional anything and everything for that matter.Siobhan Corbyn, S12.Ep4: Vanishing Twin

It’s always about the next accessory. Why a woman would choose a baby over a collection of fine German vibrators is beyond me.Virginia Harding, S12.Ep4: Vanishing Twin

I always thought it was funny that we consider men the braver sеx. Women will do anything to help each other. Some men won’t even stand up for the woman who birthed them.Virginia Harding, (to Dex), S12.Ep5: Preech

Get used to having your dreams crushed. That’s what being a parent is.Andrew Hill, (to Anna), S12.Ep5: Preech

Pain is the touchstone of growth.Sonia Shawcross, S12.Ep5: Preech