The Best TV Series Quotes of 2023

God gives us tragedies so we can pass along how we survived it to the next generation of sufferers.John Dutton, (to Monica), Yellowstone, S5.Ep8: A Knife and No Coin

It’s okay to fall, to make mistakes. I’ve made lots. It’s how you become a cantankerous old sorcerer. The trick is to embrace your defeats as well as your victories. You pay for both in the end.Willow Ufgood, (to Elora), Willow, S1.Ep8: Children of the Wyrm

In war, it does not matter the size of your enemy’s forces, the strength of his steel, or the valor of his men. All that is required for victory is to know your enemy’s deepest desire.Emma of Normandy, Vikings: Valhalla, S2.Ep8: The Reckoning

We tell the stories of the past to change our future.Sister Harriet, Hunters, S2.Ep8: The Trial of Adolf Hitler

Heartbreak is our greatest teacher, and if so, thank you for making me wise.Joe Goldberg, You, S4.Ep1: Joe Takes a Holiday

I am not sure how I should care about change. It is a fundamental part of life.Tech, (Omega: Everything is changing, and you don't even care.), Star Wars: The Bad Batch, S2.Ep9: The Crossing

Marriage is an institution that was created back when people died young. It was built on land ownership and procreation. These days, it’s mainly used to subjugate women and sell air fryers.Paul Rhoades, Shrinking, S1.Ep5: Woof

If you wanna give God a good laugh, you tell him what you think your destiny is.Jack Dutton, (to Elizabeth), 1923, S1.Ep8: Nothing Left to Lose

The lie never betrays you. Never leaves you, never gets old, never gets cancer. It is perfect every time you manufacture it.Milo Sunter, Mayor of Kingstown, S2.Ep8: Santa Jesus

Sometimes things don’t work out the way we hope. You can feel like you’ve come to an end, and you don’t know what to do next. But if you just keep going, you find something new to fight for. Joel Miller, (to Ellie), The Last of Us, Season 1, Episode 9: Look for the Light

There is a cost, always, to making difficult choices. The key is making sure that cost is not regret.General Kirigan, Shadow and Bone, S2.Ep2: Rusalye

The world can be different. But the only chance we have of seeing it is by fighting for it.Vignette Stonemoss, (to Philo), Carnival Row, S2.Ep9: Battle Lines

One does not speak unless one knows.Din Djarin, The Mandalorian, S3.Ep4: Chapter 20: The Foundling

There’s no such thing as false hope. There’s just hope.Lottie Matthews, (to Natalie), Yellowjackets, S2.Ep1: Friends, Romans, Countrymen

The good thing about having a family that doesn’t love you is you learn to live without it.Connor Roy, Succession, S4.Ep2: Rehearsal

Time speeds up as you get older, because when you’re a year old, that year is a hundred percent of your perception of time, but as you get older, that year is a smaller fraction of the time you’ve experienced.George Nakai, Beef, S1.Ep7: I Am a Cage

If you’re scared of falling over, you’ll just fall even more.Ai Hoshino, (to Ruby), Oshi no Ko, S1.Ep1: Mother and Children

Nothing is more elusive than a door the mind doesn’t wish to open.Deanna Troi, Star Trek: Picard, S3.Ep9: Vox

You couldn’t call simply not killing or destroying anymore atonement. I need to grow more wheat than I trampled underfoot. I need to rebuild more houses than I burnt down. I still don’t know how to eliminate war from the entire world. But just a single village would do. I want to create a place where people don’t need swords.Thorfinn, Vinland Saga, S2.Ep15: Storm

Intelligence is a story. A story based on incomplete facts. Life or death decisions turn on whether people buy the story.Kate Wyler, (to Stuart), The Diplomat, S1.Ep2: Don't Call It a Kidnapping

Life doesn’t wait for us. We have to catch up to it sometimes.Aimee Eden, Sweet Tooth, S2.Ep8: The Ballad of the Last Men

Love is not a thing one is able or not able to do based on some magic. Some chemistry. That is for plays. Love is determination. Love is a choice one makes. You take someone in marriage, and you choose to love them. You do not give yourself any other option. Because marriage is difficult. Full of pains. And the life of a royal is lonely. So you grab someone, and you hang on. You love, and you love hard because if you do not, you are lost.Queen Charlotte, (to Edward), Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, S1.Ep5: Gardens in Bloom

I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we’re ever given a second chance.Theodore 'Ted' Lasso, (to Coach Beard), Ted Lasso, S3.Ep11: Mom City

Maybe if we share a piece of ourselves, we can break out of our old cycles of violence and pain. Create a new world for you, Nora. A better one. One where we can coexist. All of us. Together. A world where nothing has to be impossible… As long as we believe in it.Barry Allen, The Flash, S9.Ep13: A New World, Part Four

A man does not gamble and wish for good fortune. A real man takes what he wants, creates his own.Boro Polonia, Fubar, S1.Ep6: Royally Flushed

I want a big life. I want to experience everything. I want to break every single rule there is. They say ambition is an unattractive trait in a woman. Maybe. But you know what’s really unattractive? Waiting around for something to happen. Staring out a window, thinking the life you should be living is out there somewhere but not being willing to open the door and go get it. Even if someone tells you you can’t. Being a coward is only cute in The Wizard of Oz.Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, S5.Ep9: Four Minutes

You got no concept of time. You think you do, but you don’t. It’s because you got a whole lot more ahead of you than behind. Time to you is just an idea.Martha Walker, (to Juliette), Silo, S1.Ep6: The Relic

Some you bury in the ground. Some you bury in your heart.Gilberto 'Gilly' Lopez, Mayans M.C., S5.Ep4: I See the Black Light

Risk isn’t the downside of a relationship. It’s the foundation.Cathy Mueller, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, S4.Ep3: Sacrifices

I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story.Joan, Black Mirror, S6.Ep1: Joan Is Awful

As adults, we never try new things because it just becomes so easy to keep doing the same exact thing with the same exact people. Who doesn’t want easy? Who doesn’t wanna just f***ing be okay?Natalie 'Sugar' Berzatto, The Bear, S2.Ep2: Pasta

The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend.Brianna Randall, Outlander, S7.Ep2: The Happiest Place on Earth

History, it has a way of repeating itself. Even for the idealistic.Geralt of Rivia, (to Ciri), The Witcher, S3.Ep1: Shaerrawedd

Talk is cheap anyway, kid. Believe me, I oughta know. It doesn’t matter what people say. It only matters what they do.Negan, (to Ginny), The Walking Dead: Dead City, S1.Ep3: People Are a Resource

It’s easier to save the lives of eight billion people than it is to change their hearts and minds.Nick Fury, Secret Invasion, S1.Ep6: Home

Jane Austen. Wrote books too. You people, I will never get the hang of you lot.Crowley, Good Omens, S2.Ep2: The Clue

You don’t have to understand your feelings completely to know that you like something. You don’t have to always have figured everything out. You can just feel.Nick Nelson, (to Elle), Heartstopper, S2.Ep5: Heat

The most important part of chasing a dream is the people who chase alongside with you.Oliver Putnam, Only Murders in the Building, S3.Ep1: The Show Must...

When a man is old, he doesn’t care what he remembers. He cares how he’s remembered.Brother Dusk, Foundation, S2.Ep5: The Sighted and the Seen

All safeness is associated with life, whereas all fear is associated with death.As Nodt, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, S1.Ep19: The White Haze

Anger and frustration are quick to give power. But they also unbalance you.Ahsoka Tano, (to Sabine), Ahsoka, S1.Ep3: art Three: Time to Fly

If the path to what you want seems too easy, then you’re on the wrong path.Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece, S1.Ep2:The Man in the Straw Hat

You shouldn’t try to block out all those emotions because that’s how heartbreak becomes unresolved and turns into something bitter. It’s really important that you feel all those feelings, as much as they hurt.Jean Milburn, (to Otis), Sex Education, S4.Ep8

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.Aviendha, The Wheel of Time, S2.Ep7: Daes Dae'Mar

A suit doesn’t make a man. No, it’s what’s inside the suit that counts. But a wolf in sheep’s clothing can’t rely on killer instinct alone. It’s his resourcefulness and perhaps an open heart that can turn garbage into gold and enemies into allies.Winston, The Continental: From the World of John Wick, S1.Ep3: Theater of Pain

When a man dies in someone else’s war, it’s his kids that suffer. That gets passed down to their kids. After a while, no one even remembers what the “cause” was.Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, S1.Ep5: Deux Amours

What you find when you have time away is perspective.Dennis Hoban, (to Jim), The Long Shadow, S1.Ep5

These people. They want an entire meal for $5 in five minutes then complain when it’s made of s*** and plastic. McDonald’s would serve nothing but kale salad all day and all night long if that’s what people f***ing ate. It’s available, no one buys it. We will get around to funding AIDS research, and diabetes, and heart disease, just as soon as we figure out how to keep our geriatric dicks harder for a few more minutes. What’s the market share on wimpy dicks? 60-70% of the healthcare industry. The Pentagon spent $83 million on Viagra last year. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, the f***ing Supreme Court does its part, tears the autonomy, rips the liberty away from women, shreds not just their choice but their future, their potential. We turn men into cսm fountains and women into factories, cranking out, what, an impoverished workforce, there for the labor and to spend what little they make consuming. And what do we teach them to want? Houses they can’t afford, cars that poison the air, single-serve plastics, clothes made by starving children in third world countries. And they want it so bad that they’re begging for it, they’re screaming for it, they’re insisting upon it.Madeline Usher, (to Roderick), The Fall of the House of Usher, S1.Ep8: The Raven

In life, focus on your friends, not your enemies. Get the best out of them. They’ll handle the attacks for you.Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod, (to Prince), Billions, S7.Ep10: Enemies List

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), American Horror Story, S12.Ep5: Preech

Hatred and sorrow never leave once they’re in you. Hence their power. One may think they have burned themselves out, but the embers never truly grow cold.Tenma, Pluto, S1.Ep8

Traders are worse than middle schoolers with a crush. They can’t keep a secret to save their lives.Cory Ellison, The Morning Show, S3.Ep9: Update Your Priors

Darkness lasts not even for one second when you turn on the light.Marie-Laure LeBlanc, All the Light We Cannot See, S1.Ep1

Hate is like a typhoon. It begins as a breeze at sea that is swallowed by darkness. Then deepens. Energizes. And grows ever stronger. Swirling and raging until it is ready to strike!Narrator, Blue Eye Samurai, S1.Ep5: The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride

You would do anything for everyone to like you. You’re not a hero.Sam Riordan, (to Emma), Gen V, S1.Ep8: Guardians of Godolkin

Those who can’t sacrifice anything can’t change anything.Armin Arlelt, Attack on Titan, S4.Ep30: The Final Chapters: Special 2

Mobius M. Mobius: Most purpose is more burden than glory. And trust me, you never want to be the guy who avoids it because you can’t live with the burden.
Loki: How do you live with it?
Mobius M. Mobius: Scar tissue.Mobius M. Mobius, Loki, Loki, S2.Ep6: Glorious Purpose

I was a person before, I’m still a person now, no matter whose definition I’m on the wrong side of.Nathan Brown, Upload, S3.Ep8: Flesh and Blood

Be the clown. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.Paul, (to Asher), The Curse, S1.Ep1: Land of Enchantment

It’s hard to say aloud the things we can barely say to ourselves.Elizabeth Zott, Lessons in Chemistry, S1.Ep7: Book of Calvin

What the hell? No fights? No kissing? This finale sucks.Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, S1.Ep8: The World Vs Scott Pilgrim

The best way to seize the future is to invent it.Dev Ayesa, For All Mankind, S4.Ep3: The Bear Hug

Most people like to own things. You know, land, luggage, other people. Makes them feel secure. But all that can be taken away. And in the end, the only thing you really own is your story.Drover, Faraway Downs, S1.Ep1: Chapter One: The Land

There are times in this life when we have to face the loss of something so precious, it makes the heart clench just to think of it. Love’s frail, it don’t last. Especially not in our world. That’s what gives it its pain. And it’s also what gives it its shine because in the flickering of a glim, it’s gone.Norbert Fagin, The Artful Dodger, S1.Ep8: Untapped Potential

Underestimating people only gives them the high ground.Rick Sanchez, Rick and Morty, S7.Ep9: Mort: Ragnarick

Don’t spend all your time writing about other folks’ lives and forget to live your own.Dorothy Scott, (to Peggy), The Gilded Age, S2.Ep7: Wonders Never Cease

Lorraine Lyon: You want freedom with no responsibility? Son, there is only one person on Earth who gets that deal.
Roy Tillman: The president?
Lorraine Lyon: A baby.Lorraine Lyon, Roy Tillman, Fargo, S5.Ep5: The Tiger

Monarchy isn’t rational. Or democratic or logical or fair. Haven’t we all learned that by now? People don’t want to come to a royal palace and get what they could have at home. When they come for an investiture or a state visit, when they brush up against us, they want the magic and the mystery. And the arcane and the eccentric and the symbolic. And the transcendent. They want to feel like they’ve entered another world. That is our duty. To lift people up and transport them into another realm, not bring them down to earth and remind them of what they already have.Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, S6.Ep6: Ruritania

Do you know what my favorite thing about children is? Never afraid to say “I don’t know.” Everything, every day, is an adventure and a mystery. They devour the world.Keiko Miura, (to Lee), Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, S1.Ep6: Terrifying Miracles

Home ownership is like keeping snakes as pets or ballroom dancing competitions.Jack Reacher, Reacher, S2.Ep2: What Happens in Atlantic City

Every man has hell in his heart, some just more than others.Bass Reeves, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, S1.Ep8: Part VIII

One cannot fend off darkness with more darkness, only light.Jiayi, What If...?, S2.Ep7: What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?

Love is a disease with different phases. Anxiety when you find it. Fear of losing it. Depression when it leaves you.Cameron, Berlin, S1.Ep2: Anchor and Lobo