The Best TV Series Quotes of 2021
From WandaVision, Invincible, and Mare of Easttown to Arcane, The Wheel of Time, and Hawkeye, this is our selection of the top TV quotes of 2021.
Sometimes the scars you can’t see are the ones that hurt the most.Samantha LaRusso, Cobra Kai, S3.Ep8: The Good, The Bad, and the Badass
The thing about civilization is, it keeps you civil. Get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.Amos Burton, The Expanse, S5.Ep6: Tribes
That’s what makes our parents loom so large in our heads, I think. They’re a million things to us all at once. And even after they’re long gone, we’re stuck with them. Can’t help it. They’re inside of us.Jack Pearson, This Is Us, S5.Ep7: There
That’s what shame does. It makes him think he deserves it. The wards are full of men who think they deserve it. They are dying, and a little bit of them thinks, yes, this is right. I brought this on myself, it’s my fault, because the sex that I love is killing me. I mean it’s astonishing, the perfect virus came along to prove you right. So that’s what happened in your house. He died because of you. They all die because of you.Jill Baxter, (to Valerie), It's a Sin, S1.Ep5
No one ever dreams about the problems, but every life has them. Even the extraordinary ones.Lois Lane, Superman & Lois, S1.Ep1: Pilot
This world needs more people screwed up just enough to think they can do the impossible.Marcus Andrews, The Good Doctor, S4.Ep11: We're All Crazy Sometimes
Grief carves a place in the heart and sits there forever. But when focused, it can be a powerful motivator. Sadness becomes resolve and pain becomes action.Ysabeau de Clermont, A Discovery of Witches, S2.Ep10
Evil people aren’t the exception to the rule. They are the rule.Gabriel Stokes, The Walking Dead, S10.Ep19: One More
Anyone can save the world with their speed, with their might, but it takes a real hero, a once-in-a-lifetime hero, to do it with his heart.Harrison Wells, The Flash, S7.Ep3: Mother
Symbols are nothing without the women and men that give them meaning.Sam Wilson, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, S1.Ep1:New World Order
People say this is the age of technology. They’re wrong. This is the age of manipulation.Mr. World, (to Technical Boy), American Gods, S3.Ep10: Tears of the Wrath-Bearing Tree
You don’t have to be the greatest Omni-Man ever. You just have to be the greatest you.Debbie Grayson, (to Mark), Invincible, S1.Ep1: It's About Time
Everyone has to die eventually. What matters are the choices you make while you’re alive.Harry Vanderspeigle, Resident Alien, S1.Ep10: Heroes of Patience
Being in two places at one time is a sure way to end up in neither.Angel Reyes, Mayans M.C., S3.Ep7: What Comes of Handlin' Snakeskin
Saints become martyrs before they get to be heroes.Zoya Nazyalensky, to Alina), Shadow and Bone, S1.Ep8: No Mourners
Waiting is only painful when you’re not doing anything else.Amalia True, The Nevers, S1.Ep3: Ignition
You spend your whole life giving people a reason not to trust you, and then one day, you cannot even trust yourself.Daniel Salazar, Fear the Walking Dead, S6.Ep10: Handle with Care
It’s ironic. Clones wanted names instead of numbers, yet now people are signing up to be given numbers.Echo, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, S1.Ep2: Cut and Run
There is a terrible gift to loss. Which leaves nothing left to lose, which means you have everything to gain.Sheldon Sampson, Jupiter's Legacy, S1.Ep7: Omnes Pro Uno
When you a runaway, lot of things get left behind. Hard not to think about them. It’s like a piece of you what’s missing. It’s heavy. Like dead weight. Cora Randall, (to Royal), The Underground Railroad, S1.Ep8: Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn
Doing something great is overrated. Because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realize is you’re just as screwed up as they are.Mare Sheehan, Mare of Easttown, S1.Ep5: Illusions
Why does healing have to be the only goal? Why can’t we be as furious as we feel? Don’t we have that right?June Osborne, (to Moira), The Handmaid's Tale, S4.Ep8: Testimony
If we can see past the fear, we find out what really matters. And we learn that sometimes, the things that set us apart can also bring us together. Because family is what we make it. Each one of us. Together.The Narrator, Sweet Tooth, S1.Ep8: Big Man
Love is a dagger. It’s a weapon to be wielded far away or up close. You can see yourself in it. It’s beautiful. Until it makes you bleed.Loki Laufeyson, Loki, S1.Ep3: Lamentis
Sometimes you have to let the story tell itself.Lisey Landon, Lisey's Story, S1.Ep7: No Light, No Spark
Everyone can change their nature, Morty. It’s what defines our species. Look at Iron Man. That actor was an animal in the ’90s, literally waking up in bushes. His agent had to catch him with a butterfly net.Rick Sanchez, Rick and Morty, S5.Ep4: Rickdependence Spray
He’s fine. That’s it. Nothing wrong with that, most people are fine. But it’s not about him. It’s about why the f*** you think he deserves you. You deserve someone who makes you feel like you’ve been struck by f***ing lightning. Don’t you dare settle for fine.Roy Kent, (to Rebecca, about John), Ted Lasso, S2.Ep1: Goodbye Earl
If you’re gonna lead the life of an adventurer, you might wanna keep a journal. Write down everything you ever do, even the silly stuff that you think is forgettable. Because when the adventures are over, that’s all you’re left with: good friends and happy memories.Orko, (to Andra), Masters of the Universe: Revelation, S1.Ep3: The Most Dangerous Man in Eternia
There are fewer talented writers in the world than there are astronauts.Ursula, American Horror Story, S10.Ep3: Thirst
A lot of people believe that there is only one great love in life. But what they don’t realize is that you can live multiple lives.Tokyo, Money Heist, S5.Ep5: Live Many Lives
If the devil can be redeemed, then anyone can.Lucifer Morningstar, Lucifer, S6.Ep10: Partners 'Til the End
Humankind has a long history of despising and fearing those who are different. Nobody chooses how they’re born. And yet the unsighted persecute the sighted. If one day the sighted outnumber the unsighted again, the roles will reverse. It is one of the many ways in which we all are very much the same.Paris, See, S2.Ep3: The Compass
People are so consumed with the idea that money buys freedom that they can’t demand better of the powerful or themselves. As soon as they gain some power of their own, they forget about better and just want to be rich.Michael Prince, Billions, S5.Ep9: Implosion
Heroes are not born, they’re forged in darkness. Shaped in battle. Defined by sacrifice.The Watcher, What If...?, S1.Ep6: What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?
You shouldn’t ever give someone the power to humiliate you. You’re great. Just the way you are.Otis Milburn, Sex Education, S3.Ep7
You don’t trust people because they are trustworthy. You do it because you have nothing else to rely on.Seong Gi-hun,( to Sae-byeok), Squid Game, S1.Ep4: Stick to the Team
Women who knock rarely make history.Mabel Mora, Only Murders in the Building, S1.Ep6: To Protect and Serve
There is no time. There is no death. Life is a dream. It’s a wish. Made again and again and again and again and again and again and on into eternity.Erin Greene, Midnight Mass, S1.Ep7: Book VII: Revelation
Life just turns out to be a series of disappointments with just enough time in between them for the next one to catch you by surprise.Bradley Jackson, The Morning Show, S2.Ep2: It's Like the Flu
Writing is where I go to be honest about how I feel. Sometimes it’s really the only way for me to know what it is that I’m feeling.Alex Russell, Maid, S1.Ep10: Snaps
If there is ever, even for a fleeting moment, a tiny voice in your head, and that tiny voice is telling you, “I deserve better”, listen to her. That’s your partner. That’s your real, true love. And if you betray her long enough, you will lose her.Marienne Bellamy, (to Love), You, S3.Ep10: What Is Love?
That’s why we have to protect our parents because they don’t understand enough to protect themselves.Bode Locke, (to Jamie), Locke & Key, S2.Ep9: Alpha & Omega
Gods are impervious to knives. But you can kill them. You just stop believing in them.Hari Seldon, Foundation, S1.Ep7: Mysteries and Martyrs
Want to know what God thinks of money? Take a look at who he gives it to.Pacho Herrera, Narcos: Mexico, S3.Ep6: La Jefa
Power, real power, doesn’t come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest. No. It comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.Silco, Arcane, S1.Ep2: Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved
You know what’s cool about losing your life? You get to build a new one.Spike Spiegel, (to Faye), Cowboy Bebop, S1.Ep4: Callisto Soul
Life’s not knights on horseback. It’s a number on a piece of paper. It’s a fight for a knife in the mud.Logan Roy, (to Kendall), Succession, S3.Ep8: Chiantishire
Fear is an illness. If you catch it and you leave it untreated, it can consume you.Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher, S2.Ep1: A Grain of Truth
Freedom. To most, it is an idea. An abstract thought that pertains to control. That’s not freedom. That’s independence. Freedom is riding wild over untamed land with no notion any moment exists beyond the one you are living.Elsa Dutton, 1883, S1.Ep2: Behind Us, A Cliff
You showed me that being a hero isn’t just for people who can fly or shoot lasers out of their hands: it’s for anyone who’s brave enough to do what’s right, no matter the cost.Kate Bishop, (to Clint), Hawkeye, S1.Ep6: So This Is Christmas?
Killing someone is a terrible thing, and you can never take it back. Don’t ever feel bad about not killing someone.Clarissa Mao, (to Jim), The Expanse, S6.Ep4: Redoubt