Marvel’s Daredevil Quotes: Not Everyone Deserves a Happy Ending
Marvel’s Daredevil (Daredevil) is a superhero web television series based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series is created for Netflix by Drew Goddard and produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, DeKnight Productions and Goddard Textiles.
The series follows the attorney Matt Murdock, who was blinded as a child in a tragic accident but in the same time gifted with extraordinary senses. Murdock fights against injustice as the lawyer by day and as the “Man in the Mask” at night.
The cast is led by Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock. There are also Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, Elodie Yung as Elektra Natchios, Scott Glenn as Stick, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ben Urich, Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna, and Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple.
Season 1
I’m not seeking penance for what I’ve done, Father. I’m asking forgiveness…for what I’m about to do.Matt Murdock, S1.Ep1: Into the Ring
Used to be if you killed a man, you sent his wife flowers. Now they just send his wife with him.Silvio, S1.Ep3: Rabbit in a Snowstorm
Being informed, knowing facts as they are, not how we wish to perceive them, can tip the balance between life and death.Wilson Fisk, S1.Ep8: Shadows in the Glass
They say the past is etched in stone, but it isn’t. It’s smoke trapped in a closed room, swirling… changing. Buffeted by the passing of years and wishful thinking. But even though our perception of it changes, one thing remains constant. The past can never be completely erased. It lingers. Like the scent of burning wood.James Wesley, S1.Ep4: In the Blood
Perhaps we’re destined to follow a path none of us can see, only vaguely sense, as it takes our hand, guiding us towards the inevitable.James Wesley, S1.Ep11: The Path of the Righteous
Growing to love something is really simply forgetting slowly what you dislike about it.James Wesley, S1.Ep11: The Path of the Righteous
General rule, guys who wear masks have something to hide, and it usually ain’t good.Foggy Nelson, S1.Ep6: Condemned
The moment you put on the mask you got into cage with animals. Animals don’t stop fighting. Not until one of them is dead.Vladimir Ranskahov, S1.Ep6: Condemned
Wind blows the hardest the closer you get to the mountaintop.Leland Owlsley, S1.Ep12: The Ones We Leave Behind
Smart don’t come out of books. Smart is making the right decision at the right time.Stick, S1.Ep7: Stick
You don’t get to be the man at the top without making enemies looking to tear you down to the ground.Ben Urich, S1.Ep11: The Path of the Righteous
You want something out of life, you gotta put yourself out there.Bill Fisk, S1.Ep8: Shadows in the Glass
It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it.Madame Gao, S1.Ep8: Shadows in the Glass
Man cannot be both savior and oppressor… light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other.Madame Gao, S1.Ep10: Nelson v. Murdock
The wheel constantly turns. We must adapt to its position, or be crushed beneath it.Madame Gao, S1.Ep12: The Ones We Leave Behind
Nothing drives people to the Church faster than the thought of the Devil snapping at their heels.Father Lantom, S1.Ep11: The Path of the Righteous
Telling the truth is never simple or easy. Why, only the best of us ever really try.Doris Urich, S1.Ep12: The Ones We Leave Behind
You were right, what you told me over the radio that night. Not everyone deserves a happy ending.Daredevil, S1.Ep13: Daredevil
Season 2
Did you even listen to Brett? We’re talking about a squad of trained killers loose on the streets. Not the kind of guys you challenge to a fist fight in your underwear.Foggy Nelson, S2.Ep1: Bang
Did Castle say anything that we can use? ‘Cause when the judge calls his first witness tomorrow, my only plan so far is to run away, and open a butcher shop.Foggy Nelson, S2.Ep7: Semper Fidelis
You know it can be hard? You run around this city in a pair of little boy’s pajamas and a mask. You go home at night, right? Take that mask off, maybe you think… it wasn’t you who did those things, maybe it was somebody else. Well, see, soldiers… we don’t wear masks, yeah? We don’t get that privilege.Frank Castle, S2.Ep3: New York's Finest
You know what I think of you, hero? I think you’re a half-measure. I think you’re a man who can’t finish the job. I think that you’re a coward. You know the one thing that you just can’t see? You know you’re one bad day away from being me.Frank Castle, S2.Ep3: New York's Finest
I do the one thing that you can’t. You hit them and they get back up, I hit them and they stay down.Frank Castle, S2.Ep3: New York's Finest
You people, you call me the Punisher, ain’t that right? The big bad Punisher. Well, here I am! You want it, you got it! I am the Punisher! I’m right here! You want it, I’ll give it to you.Frank Castle, S2.Ep8: Guilty as Sin
People that can hurt you, the ones that can really hurt you, are the ones that are close enough to do it.Frank Castle, S2.Ep11: .380
You cross over to my side of the line, you don’t get to come back from that. Not ever.Frank Castle, S2.Ep11: .380
Funerals are for the living, and revising history only dilutes the lessons we should learn from it.Father Lantom, S2.Ep4: Penny and Dime
Guilt can be a good thing. It’s the soul’s call to action. The indication that something is wrong. The only way to rid your heart of it is to correct your mistakes and keep going until amends are made.Father Lantom, S2.Ep4: Penny and Dime
You don’t get what you want by day. You take it by force at night.Elektra Natchios, S2.Ep7: Semper Fidelis
All right, Frank. You don’t want to tell us? I’ll tell you. I’m gonna tell you exactly what kind of man you are. You’re the kind of man this city needs. Because ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we all know this city needs help. Needs it now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not when the day comes, when the corruption that Wilson Fisk left in his wake is flushed out for good, and the police force is finally back on its feet. We need it now. ‘Cause this city’s been sick. And the cops, they can’t fix it alone, they need, we all need men and women who are willing to take the fight themselves. The kind of people who risk their lives so that we can walk safe at night in our own neighborhoods. The ones our esteemed District Attorney here is trying so hard to destroy. New York needs these people. We need heroes.Matt Murdock, S2.Ep8: Guilty as Sin
When an animal wants something, when it needs something, other things need to be stepped on.Wilson Fisk, S2.Ep9: Seven Minutes in Heaven
Every minute that you spend standing, hiding in this suit of armor, the more separate you become from the very things that you wanna protect.Claire Temple, S2.Ep10: The Man in the Box
It’s painful, raising children. We spend our lives teaching them to be strong, to be independent. Not realizing that once we have achieved that, they are no longer in our control.Nobu, S2.Ep12: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
War changes people. Sometimes they see things they can’t unsee. Come home to find home’s not there anymore. It changed. Or maybe they did.Daredevil, S2.Ep3: New York's Finest
This Elektra, this is a part of me that I need. And you’re the only one who gets it. Without this, I’m not alive. I’m not, not really. And I know that now, thanks to you. I don’t know what we are together, and if we have any chance in the future. But I do know that I’m free with you. Like with no one else.Daredevil, S2.Ep13: A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen
There’s something about this city that makes good people want to shoot their way out of bad situations.Karen Page, S2.Ep2: Dogs to a Gunfight
What is it, to be a hero? Look in the mirror and you’ll know. Look into your own eyes and tell me you are not heroic, that you have not endured, or suffered, or lost the things you care about most. And yet, here you are, a survivor of Hell’s Kitchen, the hottest place anyone’s ever known. A place where cowards don’t last long, so you must be a hero. We all are. Some more than others, but none of us alone. Some bloody their fists trying to keep the Kitchen safe. Others bloody the streets in the hope they can stop the tide, the crime, the cruelty, the disregard for human life all around them. But this is Hell’s Kitchen. Angel or devil, rich or poor, young or old, you live here. You didn’t choose this town, it chose you. Because a hero isn’t someone who lives above us, keeping us safe. A hero’s not a God, or an idea. A hero lives here, on the street, among us, with us. Always here but rarely recognized. Look in the mirror and see yourself for what you truly are. You’re a New Yorker. You’re a hero. This is your Hell’s Kitchen. Welcome home.Karen Page, S2.Ep13: A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen
Season 3
I’m not as capable as I was, but I don’t get to choose who I am. I’m Daredevil. Not even God can stop that now.Matt Murdock, S3.Ep2: Please
We come into this world who we are. And maybe we get a little nicer, or a little angrier. But we can’t change our fundamental nature.Matt Murdock, S3.Ep3: No Good Deed
You will go back to prison, and you will live the rest of your miserable life in a cage, knowing you’ll never have Vanessa, that this city rejected you. It beat you. I beat you! You’ll keep my secret, and you won’t harm Karen Page or Foggy Nelson, or anyone else. Because if you do, I will go after your wife. And I will prove Vanessa ordered the murder of Agent Ray Nadeem, and like her husband, she’ll spend the rest of her life in a cell.Matt Murdock (to Fisk), S3.Ep13: A New Napkin
For me, personally, he spent many years trying to get me to face my own fears. To understand how they enslaved me, how they divided me from the people that I love. He counseled me to transcend my fears, to be brave enough to forgive and see the possibilities of being a man without fear. That was his legacy. And now it’s up to all of us to live up to it.Matt Murdock (about Father Lantom), S3.Ep13: A New Napkin
Someone once said that everyone is fighting a battle of their own, that you can’t see. But sometimes, sometimes you can see.Father Lantom, S3.Ep10: Karen
It’s one thing to work a story. It’s another thing to let a story work you.Mitchell Ellison (to Karen), S3.Ep2: Please
You can build a prison of stone and steel, but you merely present the prisoner with a challenge. Any truly determined man will find a way out. But love, love is the perfect prison. Inescapable.Wilson Fisk, S3.Ep2: Please
Rage cannot stay inside. It needs to go somewhere or it becomes a poison.Wilson Fisk, S3.Ep8: Upstairs/Downstairs
You don’t know which battle you’re fighting until you’re fighting it.Foggy Nelson, S3.Ep3: No Good Deed
Nobody is above the law. The only thing powerful enough to take down scumbags like him is the law.Foggy Nelson (to Matt, about Fisk), S3.Ep11: Reunion
If there’s anything that can redeem a lost soul, love would have to top the list.Sister Maggie, S3.Ep3: No Good Deed
When someone in need tries to push you away, you have to find the strength to hold on tighter.Sister Maggie, S3.Ep6: The Devil You Know
Don’t you understand we’re all broken? The point is to find the person whose broken pieces fit with yours.Vanessa Marianna (to Fisk), S3.Ep13: A New Napkin