Rust Cohle Quotes: Deep Insights from True Detective’s Philosopher-Detective

Time is a flat circle.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self.

Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

You know, you could see a person?s life is their act of will.

The world needs bad men. We keep other bad men from the door.

If you ask me, the light’s winning.

To realize that all your life, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain, it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person.

Death created time to grow the things that it would kill.

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution.

I consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist.

I know what happens when you die, you become nothing.

We all got what I call a life trap, a gene deep certainty that things will be different?

I think about the hubris it must take to yank a soul out of non existence into this…meat.

Everyone?s guilty. We live in a world of reproductions.

Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. Be careful what you get good at.

There’s a monster at the end of it.

The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.

If the common good’s gotta make up fairy tales, then it’s not good for anybody.

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. ? Rust Cohle

This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. ? Rust Cohle

The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that’s what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. ? Rust Cohle

You see we all got what I call a life trap, a gene-deep certainty that things will be different. ? Rust Cohle

You can’t remember your lives. You can’t change your lives. And that is the terrible and secret fate of all life. You’re trapped in that nightmare you keep waking up into. ? Rust Cohle

I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a victory in that. ? Rust Cohle

The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door. ? Rust Cohle

We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. ? Rust Cohle

I’d consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. ? Rust Cohle

If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of shit. ? Rust Cohle

Time is a flat circle. ? Rust Cohle

I think about the hubris it must take to yank a soul out of non-existence into this meat… Force a life into this thresher. ? Rust Cohle

Death created time to grow the things that it would kill. ? Rust Cohle

We all

Time is a flat circle.

Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory, experience, and feeling.

This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory’s fading.

If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then, brother, that person is a piece of shit.

I can’t say the job made me this way. More like me being this way made me right for the job.

The world needs bad men. We keep other bad men from the door.

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution.

I see a propensity for obesity. Poverty. A yen for fairy tales.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a victory in that.

People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time.

I lack the constitution for suicide.

Death created time to grow the things that it would kill.

The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that’s what the preacher sells, same as a shrink.

Everyone has a choice. In this world, even to not have one is also a choice.