The Best TV Series Quotes of 2025
From The Pitt and Landman to MobLand and The Bear, explore the most memorable quotes and lines from the best TV shows of 2025 so far…
We need to laugh. Otherwise, we’d never stop crying.Samira Mohan, (to Dennis), The Pitt, S1.Ep2: 8:00 A.M.
Winter Bird: It’s a fine dress. You shouldn’t wash it all away. It has your life painted on it.
Abish Pratt: Not all good colors.
Winter Bird: That is life.Winter Bird, American Primeval, S1.Ep4
The moral high ground gets real windy at night.Tommy Norris, (to Rebecca), Landman, S1.Ep10: The Crumbs of Hope
All we’re trying to do is survive. But the only way we can do that is by trusting the other people stuck in the same s*** as we are.Juliette Nichols, Silo, S2.Ep10: Into the Fire
The greatest punishment of treachery? The faces of the people who trust you.Martian, The Agency, S1.Ep9: The Rubicon
We can be the good guys or we can be the guys that save the world. We can’t be both.Cecil Stedman, Invincible, S3.Ep2: A Deal with the Devil
This is what happens to normal people with big secrets. It’s harder for them to keep their masks on straight.Dexter Morgan, Dexter: Original Sin, S1.Ep9: Blood Drive
You don’t run from power. You embrace it. Take it from me. With great power comes great respect. And if you don’t have respect, you have nothing. You need to give the world a reason to respect you.Norman Osborn, (to Peter), Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, S1.Ep8: Tangled Web
There is no one way. If you wanna conquer life’s obstacles and be the best you can be, you gonna need to learn more than one discipline.Johnny Lawrence, Cobra Kai, S6.Ep15: Ex-Degenerate
Memorials and funerals are time-honored grieving technologies.Walter Tattersall, Yellowjackets, S3.Ep1: It Girl
You don’t wait until you have stuff to lose and then decide to engage in risky behavior. There’s a reason that over 70% of all crime is committed by people under 40. They don’t have anything yet.Dominique Kohl, Reacher, S3.Ep4: Dominique
Protection makes people scared. Profit makes them loyal.Vanessa Marianna, Daredevil: Born Again, S1.Ep1: Heaven's Half Hour
Parents dwell on what they couldn’t give. And children dwell on what they couldn’t get.Yang Geum-myeong, When Life Gives You Tangerines, S1.Ep4: The Blazing Summer Sunshine
If you ask the lion to protect you from the bear, you’ve only chosen to end up in one belly instead of another.Chiad, The Wheel of Time, S3.Ep2: A Question of Crimson
They give us half a life and think we won’t fight for it.Helly Riggs, Severance, S2.Ep10: Cold Harbor
Rich people steal money. All the time. In some cases it’s even why they’re rich.Cordelia Cupp, (to Lilly), The Residence, S1.Ep8: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Hunters are born to hunt. Dungeons are worlds where survival is all that matters, and a hunter has to be prepared to become prey at any time. That’s because there’s no telling when the roles might be reversed. You’re always one step away from death. But hunters are still willing to fight, no matter how many enemies they face, or how much stronger those enemies might be. They’ve all got different reasons for fighting. To protect their family. To uphold their ideals. To prove who they are. To defy fate. So hunters continue to hunt. And none of them are ready to stop.Sung Jinwoo, Solo Leveling, S2.Ep13: On to the Next Target
Only those who have lost all connection to their world are truly free to fight for a different one.White Rabbit, Devil May Cry, S1.Ep7: At the Gates of Paradise
Schools don’t teach you what happened. They teach you what they want you to believe. And if they can teach you that, you’ll believe anything they tell you.Spencer Dutton, 1923, S2.Ep7: A Dream and a Memory
No one in the history of the world has lived better than we have. Even the old kings and queens. The least we can do is enjoy it. If we don’t, it’s offensive. It’s an offense to all the billions of people who can only dream that one day they could live like we do.Victoria Ratliff, (to Piper), The White Lotus, S3.Ep8: Amor Fati
You can’t heal something unless you’re brave enough to say it out loud.Gail Lynden, (to Joel), The Last of Us, S2.Ep1: Future Days
All movies are art. You don’t get to pick which movies are art and which ones aren’t just because you don’t like them. That’s honestly, my favorite thing about art, is that, as long as it is a pure expression of human emotion, it is, by definition, “art.”Matt Remick, The Studio, S1.Ep6: The Pediatric Oncologist
If a lie is 90% truth, then it’s easy to get someone to go the extra 10%.Louise Flannery, You, S5.Ep6: The Dark Face of Love
The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.Mon Mothma, Andor, S2.Ep9: Welcome to the Rebellion
If you stop fearing what you’re so sure are the endings, you start to see they’re also the beginnings.Roksana, The Walking Dead: Dead City, S2.Ep3: Why Did the Mainlanders Cross the River?
You don’t have to be near Mommy in order to feel her love. It’ll find you no matter where you are.June Osborne, (to Holly), The Handmaid's Tale, S6.Ep10: The Handmaid's Tale
Mother Nature is a heartless, pitiless, unsympathetic, brutal, barbaric bitch who knows no mercy or pardon. She only cares which f***er wins. But yet, you know, everybody loves her. Worships her. It doesn’t matter how much she hurts them. They keep coming back. Even if she breaks their hearts, burns their houses down, kills their babies. They love her to her bones.Maeve Harrigan, MobLand, S1.Ep10: The Beast in Me
I know that you’re grown up, but I still see the little girl who played dolls with me. Remember all the dolls you had? You had, like, hundreds of dolls. And every one of those dolls had a backstory. And then you would quiz me. You’d ask me different questions. If I got it wrong, all hell broke loose, I tell you. But I never turned it down, because I knew that the day will come when you grow up and you will not invite me anymore to play with those dolls. I would give anything to get to play dolls with you one more time.Luke Brunner, (to Emma), Fubar, S2.Ep6: Penny Possum's Pizzapocalypse
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come. But when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish. It’s replaced by joy that a human being has been brought into the world.Jesus, The Chosen, S5.Ep1: Entry
You found something that you love. And it’s completely 100% okay If you don’t love it anymore. Because the most special part about it is that you are capable of that love.Natalie 'Sugar' Berzatto, The Bear, S4.Ep2: Soubise
No matter how you look at it, life is just unfair. Bad people do bad things, but they blame others and go on to live in peace. Good people, on the other hand, beat themselves up about the smallest things.Jang Geum-ja, Squid Game, S3.Ep3: Dangsin-ui tas-i anida
We’re all so quick to see the mote in someone else’s eye and forget the plank in our own.Bertha Russell, The Gilded Age, S3.Ep4: Marriage Is a Gamble
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him.Gilbert, The Sandman, S2.Ep7: Time and Night
Memories aren’t real. And they can be as self-serving as any of us.Rick Sanchez, (to Beth), Rick and Morty, S8.Ep10: Hot Rick
Old memories are like old corpses. They never quite seem the same when you dig them up.Hester Frump, Wednesday, S2.Ep4: If These Woes Could Talk
Humans think they need love from others to be happy. They do not realize they already have all the love they will ever need inside of them. Maybe the real magic happens when you give that love away.Harry Vanderspeigle, Resident Alien, S4.Ep10: The End Is Here
Kirsh: You used to be food, you know.
Wendy: Me?
Kirsh: Humanity. Your lives were short and filled with fear. Then your brains grew. You built tools and used them to conquer nature. You built impossible machines and went to space. You stopped being food. Or, I should say, you told yourself you weren’t food anymore. But in the animal kingdom, there is always someone bigger, or smaller, who would eat you alive if they had the chance. That’s what it is to be an animal. You’re born, you live, you die.Kirsh, Alien: Earth, S1.Ep1: Neverland
Nightmares are just memories you haven’t made friends with yet.Tal Varon, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, S1.Ep3: What's Past Is Prologue
The right amount of truth helps sell a good lie.Dexter Morgan, Dexter: Resurrection, S1.Ep9: Touched by an Ángel
There are paths we choose, and there are paths that choose us. What they mean and where they lead are what keep us moving forward.Gaal Dornick, Foundation, S3.Ep9: The Paths That Choose Us
Our biggest problems in life are the ones that we carry within ourselves. Everything else evens out.Leota Adebayo, Peacemaker, S2.Ep4: Need I Say Door
You’re only old if you don’t change with the times.Bash Steed, Only Murders in the Building, S5.Ep4: Dirty Bird
Dreams don’t just come true. You gotta fight to bring them into the world.Jake Friedken, Black Rabbit, S1.Ep1: The Cyclone
The truth is incendiary and it’s under attack. That’s the headline.Mia Jordan, (to Celine), The Morning Show, S4.Ep3: Tipping Point
They make monsters, the people, because they need someone to blame for the acts of the human condition.Ilse Koch, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, S1.Ep7: Ham Radio
Science has its limits. And when science fails us, the only thing left in our arsenal is faith.Cipher, Gen V, S2.Ep6: Cooking Lessons
The best thing telling a lie is when you get to start telling the truth. It really does kind of set you free.Carol Peletier, (to Antonio), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, S3.Ep6: Contrabando
Confession’s for humans. It’s a human practice to help us deal with the shame. Confession’s not for God’s sake. If you want to be forgiven, all you have to do is ask.Tom Brandis, Task, S1.E6: Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing, There Is a River
Your kid falls down. He doesn’t cry. He doesn’t know he’s hurt. He looks at you. If you don’t blink, he gets up. He’s fine.Hal Wyler, The Diplomat, S3.Ep7: PNG
If we can find joy in the mundane, in the imperfect, then we live our lives as if we’re lucky, regardless of what luck comes our way.Noah Roklov, Nobody Wants This, S2.Ep3: The Unethical Therapist
It’s not the hope that kills you. It’s knowing it’s the hope that kills you, that kills you.Jackson Lamb, (to River), Slow Horses, S5.Ep6: Scars
Nothing beats the sadness away quite like saturated colors and sugar.Emily, (in Heaven), Hazbin Hotel, S2.Ep2: Storyteller
A puppeteer without puppets is just a fool holding on to some string.Yennefer of Vengerberg, The Witcher, S4.Ep2: Dream of a Wish Fulfilled
Politicians come in handy, especially when you own them.Dwight Manfredi, Tulsa King, S3.Ep8: Nothing is Over
My dad used to say, ‘In life, people are either anchors or lifeboats. They drag you under or they keep you afloat.’Lilly Bainbridge, It: Welcome to Derry, S1.Ep5: 29 Neibolt Street
Music has a way of finding you, even in the darkest of places.Max Mayfield, Stranger Things, S5.Ep4: Chapter Four: Sorcerer
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