True Detective Quotes

We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

Sometimes your worst self is your best self.

I always saw a difference between a wh**e and a pimp. A wh**e can still have integrity.

My powers of influence are so meager in this sublunar world of ours, I try to limit the people I can disappoint. And I make sure to know the difference between my obligations and somebody else’s.

Loyalty’s important and usually painful.

If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then brother that person is a piece of s***. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

I don’t think that man can love, at least not the way that he means. Inadequacies of reality always set in.

Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus that rewrites pathways in the brain, dulls critical thinking.

You’ll do this again. Time is a flat circle.

You don’t do somebody else’s time.

That’s what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside.