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

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

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