I never lost my son. I lost myself. He brought me back. My wife brought me back. We’re the sword that kills. We’re the sword that gives life. One life. One unstoppable life. We’re not dead. [stabs Beale in the heart] You are.[to Beale]
I have been much feared and hated in my life. By my people, by yours. These marks mean I was a slave trader. It is my sin to live with. But in this house I have found kindness among the unkind.
I had an idea when I moved here of how life was gonna be. And, oh, okay, sure, while life can be disappointing, no one prepared me for the colossal frickin’ face-dive off a cliff that living in this crazy-ass town really is.
I enjoy the irony of living fake lives in order to be my true self.
I doubt everything all the time, all right? It’s the only way to live.
I don’t want to be afraid of being alive.
I don’t want my life to be all about the worst parts of it. I have more to offer than that.[to Alice]
I don’t think that order comes from fear. It comes from providing people with a decent quality of life.
I don’t plan on dying, Frank, but you can’t live your life in fear.
I did all right, though, didn’t I? I mean, I got what? 12,000 years. That’s pretty good, isn’t it?[Bernard Capax]You got what anybody gets, Bernie. No more, no less. You got a lifetime.[Death]
Hold on to all the lives we’re saving. They matter, just as much as the ones we’ve lost.[to Ray]
Here’s the deal with life. No matter how much we want to control it, we can’t always know where it’s going to take us.
